A gothic brise fan, the pierced and shaped horn sticks finely painted in bodycolour with medallions of a view, a guard in a suit of armour en grisaille and a detail of a vaulted building in the centre flanked by Egyptian-style sarophagi, the guardsticks of gilt metal, the rivet set with a turquoise - 1830s, in glazed, fan-shaped case (17in., 43cm, at base)

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A gothic brise fan, the pierced and shaped horn sticks finely painted in bodycolour with medallions of a view, a guard in a suit of armour en grisaille and a detail of a vaulted building in the centre flanked by Egyptian-style sarophagi, the guardsticks of gilt metal, the rivet set with a turquoise - 1830s, in glazed, fan-shaped case (17in., 43cm, at base)

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