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A Ballooning fan,
the silk leaf painted with the balloon acent of MM. Charles and Robert, at the Champ de Mars, 27th August, 1783, the attempt of the the Marquis d'Arlandes, the Montgolfiere at Versailles, 19th September, 1783, Euslen's Pegase launched 1785, and the balloon at Gonesse, decorated with steele columns and embroidered with spangles, the ivory sticks pierced and silvered - 10in. French, circa 1785 - in glazed fan shaped case on stand (leaf split in places)
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the silk leaf painted with the balloon acent of MM. Charles and Robert, at the Champ de Mars, 27th August, 1783, the attempt of the the Marquis d'Arlandes, the Montgolfiere at Versailles, 19th September, 1783, Euslen's Pegase launched 1785, and the balloon at Gonesse, decorated with steele columns and embroidered with spangles, the ivory sticks pierced and silvered - 10in. French, circa 1785 - in glazed fan shaped case on stand (leaf split in places)
See illustration