A gouache,&🧸nbsp;vellum and mother-of pearl fan, 1740-1750

the mother-of-pearl sticks and guards engraved and gilded in two tones, featuring a genteel concert scene in the centre, the gouache-painted vellum leaf depicting recto a countryside scene among ruins and thatched cottages, and smaller images of agricultural labour and a musician, one of which signed M. Tonin, all enclosed with colourful flowers, fruits and c-scrolls, and verso a lady fishing by a river, on a later cardboard mount

4 3⁄4 x 10 2⁄5 in.; 12 x 26.5 cm.

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Eventail en nacre, vélin et gouache, vers 1740-ꦇ1750

4 3⁄4 x 10 2⁄5 in.; 12 x 26.5 cm.