'L'Opera'. An ivory fan, French, circa 1760

the leaf painted with a central panel depicting an opera stage, flanked by a couple of musicians en grisaille and by two pastoral subjects, each framed by garlands of flowers, on a green hatched ground, the reverse with a lady and her servant in a rural landscape, vestiges of ancient stones in the background, the ivory sticks pierced, carved, gilded, silvered and painted with figures within flowers and trophies, the silvered guards with profiles of a lady and a gentleman, on a tinted mother of pearl background, paste pivot, in a later paper case

Mrs George B. Baldwin Collection, Christie's South Kensington, 4 May 1978, lot 29.

some usual wear and tears along folds and edges and wear to gilding paint but leaf in overall good condition, silvered ornaments lacking from sticks and guards but still in good condition
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