A rare Japanese telescopic fan, the scalloped leaf painted with a hawking scene, the verso with flowers, each signed, with ivory sticks, the guardsticks decorated with shibayama work lilies, butterflies and ladybirds, with faceted ogime - 10in. (27cm.) extended, late 19th century (repair to one insect)

There is a telescopic Japanese fan illustrated plate 46, in Ogi, a History of the Japanese Fan, by Julia Hutt and Helene Alexander, 1992. Telescopic fans survive from the 18th century. In 1870 Claude Ardouin, patented design no. 197 for an Eventail Mignon, illustrated p. 23, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, by Maryse Volet, Vesenaz 1986