Description: λ An early 18th century ivory fan, with carved ivory sticks and guards, the guards carved with figures in period dress and a bust of a warrior, the sticks well carved with a musical party including a lady in fine dress playing a piano, the leaf mounted à l’anglaise fashion and hand painted in body colour with a rural scene of a shepherd tending his flock along with his wife and his dogs, the verso with simple decoration, mother of pearl washers at the rivet, length 27.5cm