A fine cabriolet fan painted with five vignette views of possibly the Canton river, one with a bridge, another a pagoda, three with boats, the other leaf with birds and flowers against a silver ground, the verso with figures in gardens, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the sticks lacquered in black and gold with a frieze of animals and with vines - 11in. (27cm.), Macao, mid-19th Century

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A fine cabriolet fan painted with five vignette views of possibly the Canton river, one with a bridge, another a pagoda, three with boats, the other leaf with birds and flowers against a silver ground, the verso with figures in gardens, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the sticks lacquered in black and gold with a frieze of animals and with vines - 11in. (27cm.), Macao, mid-19th Century
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