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A Canton fan
the leaf painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the verso painted with roses and butterflies against a purple silk ground, the tortoiseshell sticks carved and pierced - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1870 - in lacquer box
the leaf painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the verso painted with roses and butterflies against a purple silk ground, the tortoiseshell sticks carved and pierced - 11in. (27cm.), circa 1870 - in lacquer box