A fan, the silk leaf painted in gouache, the central shaped, sequin-bordered cartouche with a fashionable couple strolling past their children who are  being cared for by a maid, a gentleman watching the scene from the left, the flanking medallions painted with a shepherd and a shepherdess, the sticks of alternating pierced and gilt tortoiseshell and mother of pearl - French, circa 1780, in glazed, fan shaped case (25in., 64cm at base), damage to sticks
A fan, the silk leaf painted in gouache, the central shaped, sequin-bordered cartouche with a fashionable couple strolling past their children who are being cared for by a maid, a gentleman watching the scene from the left, the flanking medallions painted with a shepherd and a shepherdess, the sticks of alternating pierced and gilt tortoiseshell and mother of pearl - French, circa 1780, in glazed, fan shaped case (25in., 64cm at base), damage to sticks

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A fan, the silk leaf painted in gouache, the central shaped, sequin-bordered cartouche with a fashionable couple strolling past their children who are being cared for by a maid, a gentleman watching the scene from the left, the flanking medallions painted with a shepherd and a shepherdess, the sticks of alternating pierced and gilt tortoiseshell and mother of pearl - French, circa 1780, in glazed, fan shaped case (25in., 64cm at base), damage to sticks
See Illustration p.37

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