The sporting breakfast, an asymmetrical fan painted with two elegant couples resting and eating after shooting, with three shotguns and various game, the smaller vignette with two ladies beating the linen near a watermill, the verso with a shepherd and shepherdess with a sheep, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with a trellis of flowers - 10in. (27cm.), circa 1740 (some mother of pearl rosettes missing)

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The sporting breakfast, an asymmetrical fan painted with two elegant couples resting and eating after shooting, with three shotguns and various game, the smaller vignette with two ladies beating the linen near a watermill, the verso with a shepherd and shepherdess with a sheep, the ivory sticks carved, pierced and painted with a trellis of flowers - 10in. (27cm.), circa 1740 (some mother of pearl rosettes missing)
See colour plate 6

Exhibited
Orlando,no.30

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