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Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 1
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 2
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 3
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 4
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 5
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 6
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 7
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 8
Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century (3) image 9
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Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan
Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century

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1 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Three Northern European carved mother of pearl folding fans and a similar period tortoiseshell folding fan

Probably Franco Flemish - one perhaps Italian, second half 18th century
The mother of pearl fans comprising one of velum leaf, decorated to the obverse with a classical scene probably depicting Achilles and other figures enjoying the spoils of ransacked Troy, flanked by floral trophies, the reverse with a classical group, possibly figures foretelling the fate of Troy, within floral borders, the sticks carved, pierced and gilded with cartouches of figures and putti and a ship, flanked by further putti, c-scrolls and flowers, the guard sticks similarly decorated but un-gilded, with paste rivet, the second with velum leaf painted to the obverse with classical figures around a chest, flanked to one side by a turbaned figure with entourage and camels, within a landscape with floral gilt scrolling borders, the obverse with a classical scene of a warrior before a military group, within similar floral borders, the carved, pierced and gilded sticks with a central cartouche of various courtly figures, and a pair of love birds flanked by further cartouches of flowers and vases, the sticks similarly decorated, the third with painted leaf, decorated to the obverse with classical figural group -possibly depicting Artemis and Orion, the reverse with a further classical scene possibly depicting the triumph of Artemis, flanked by military trophies, the plain sticks with a carved and pierced central cartouche of a courtly couple, the mother of pearl example with painted velum leaf, decorated to the obverse with a classical scene of the burning of Iphigenia before Agamemnon, flanked by onlooking figures, the sticks and guard sticks of plain form, the first 30cm high, 55cm wide, the second 27cm x 51cm, the third 27cm x 47cm, the fourth 27cm x 50cm (3)

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