A Chinese folding fan, the recto painted in watercolour and gouache with people relaxing in a beautiful alley with a stream running through the centre into a lake, the reserves with bows and flowers, the verso with men by a wooden bridge, the ivory sticks pierced and carved with medallions and flowers, the guardsticks deeply carved with flowers - 13 ¼in. (34cm), Canton for European market, circa 1790, small hole in leaf