Description: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOR ON PAPER LADY'S HAND FAN WITH ROYAL ASSOCIATION, one side painted with detailed landscape featuring a seated lady reading a letter and a boy with his dog before a cottage, flanked by sheep and a river, reverse painted with a table, bench, and flowers, mounted on an intricately carved frame featuring figures and flowers. Housed in a gilt-wood shadowbox frame. Together with a box having an inscription and note indicating the fan belonged to Maria de las Mercedes of Orleans, Queen of Spain, first wife of King Alfonso XII.