AN ITALIAN FAN AND A CANTONESE EXPORT FAN
18TH CENTURY AND 19TH CENTURY
The first with mother-of-pearl sticks, pierced and inlaid with silver, the paper leaf painted with pastoral scene; the second with pierced ivory sticks and a double-sided painted paper leaf of courtiers in a landscape
The first's guard sticks 10 in. (26 cm.) long; the second's guard sticks 11 in. (28 cm.) long
Both in fitted perspex cases (2)
AN ITALIAN FAN AND A CANTONESE EXPORT FAN
18TH CENTURY AND 19TH CENTURY
The first with mother-of-pearl sticks, pierced and inlaid with silver, the paper leaf painted with pastoral scene; the second with pierced ivory sticks and a double-sided painted paper leaf of courtiers in a landscape
The first's guard sticks 10 in. (26 cm.) long; the second's guard sticks 11 in. (28 cm.) long
Both in fitted perspex cases (2)
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