Lot 175
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A double-sided fan, the brown gauze leaf applied with paper vignettes bordered by mother-of-pearl and spangles, painted with Cupid watching a young man offering a rose to his lover, the verso with the reverse of the scene, a cartouche to either side, one with a gondola on an Italianate river, the other with a pastoral scene, with mother-of-pearl sticks--9 5/8in. (24.5cm.), circa 1890, in Duvelleroy London box
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A double-sided fan, the brown gauze leaf applied with paper vignettes bordered by mother-of-pearl and spangles, painted with Cupid watching a young man offering a rose to his lover, the verso with the reverse of the scene, a cartouche to either side, one with a gondola on an Italianate river, the other with a pastoral scene, with mother-of-pearl sticks--9 5/8in. (24.5cm.), circa 1890, in Duvelleroy London box

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A double-sided fan, the brown gauze leaf applied with paper vignettes bordered by mother-of-pearl and spangles, painted with Cupid watching a young man offering a rose to his lover, the verso with the reverse of the scene, a cartouche to either side, one with a gondola on an Italianate river, the other with a pastoral scene, with mother-of-pearl sticks--9 5/8in. (24.5cm.), circa 1890, in Duvelleroy London box
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