Folding fan, silk sheet painted with gouache and decorated with straw, feathers and mother-of-pearl and metal spangles: central cartouche with a bird on a flower vase and two smaller ovals with balloon flights of resp. the Montgolfier and Jean-Pierre Blanchard brothers, carved on a frame of à-jour and inlaid with silver bone, feathers and mother-of-pearl and metal sequins: central cartouche with a bird on a flower vase and two smaller ovals with balloon flights of resp. the Montgolfier brothers and Jean-Pierre Blanchard '(éventail) au ballon', carved on a frame of à-jour and with silver inlaid leg. The central rectangle is represented as a miniature with a list of gold-colored lovers and a painted ribbon. This is a vase of painted mother-of-pearl with flowers of straw and a bird with real feathers. On the open frame the motif of the vase with flowers is repeated in the central medallion and on the support part of the outer legs. Pin made of polished glass (rhinestone) in silver setting. The decorations here are not only made of lovers and paintings, as with most fans of a balloon, but also of other, somewhat unusual materials. In the rectangular miniature in the middle of the leaf that is shown in trompe-l'oeuil with a list of gold-colored sequins and a painted bow, there is a vase of painted mother-of-pearl with flowers of straw and a bird with real feathers. On the frame, the motif of the vase with flowers is repeated in the central medallion and on the support part of the outer legs., anonymous, France (possibly), c. 1784, blad, schildering, versiering, montuur, sluitpin, grinding, h 27.5 cm × s 51.5 cm
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