A gauze fan with finely carved ivory sticks

细节
A gauze fan with finely carved ivory sticks
the leaf embroidered with sequins, the sticks pierced with two carriages, travellers, cattle and a town, backed with purple and blue silk - 10in. (24cm.), Italian, circa 1790 (leaf slighly torn)
See colour illustration on cover

拍品专文

Probably of Roman manufacture as the cattle are of the Chianine breed from around Grossetto