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An articulated fan
the silk leaf painted with a shepherd and shepherdess, the reserves embroidered with ribbonwork and decorated with sequins and spangles, the ivory sticks carved, pierced, silvered and gilt, the guardsticks set with articulated vignettes of two men sawing a plank and a girl picking flowers - 10.5in. (26.25cm.), French, circa 1770, (the vignettes lack mica panes, leaf repaired at folds)
the silk leaf painted with a shepherd and shepherdess, the reserves embroidered with ribbonwork and decorated with sequins and spangles, the ivory sticks carved, pierced, silvered and gilt, the guardsticks set with articulated vignettes of two men sawing a plank and a girl picking flowers - 10.5in. (26.25cm.), French, circa 1770, (the vignettes lack mica panes, leaf repaired at folds)