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AN ASYMMETRIC CANTON FAN
the silk leaf drawn and painted with ladies at a circular window watching ladies in a garden, the verso embroidered in brightly coloured silks with a spray of roses, a grasshopper and a butterfly, with ivory sticks --11in., circa 1870; and a Canton cabriolet fan, the leaves painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, an oval vignette of a lakeside village and an ornamental pheasant and roses, the tortoiseshell sticks gilt with fish, shrimps, shells, figures, butterflies and flowers--8.5in., circa 1840 (2)
the silk leaf drawn and painted with ladies at a circular window watching ladies in a garden, the verso embroidered in brightly coloured silks with a spray of roses, a grasshopper and a butterfly, with ivory sticks --11in., circa 1870; and a Canton cabriolet fan, the leaves painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, an oval vignette of a lakeside village and an ornamental pheasant and roses, the tortoiseshell sticks gilt with fish, shrimps, shells, figures, butterflies and flowers--8.5in., circa 1840 (2)
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