Pâris et la pomme d'or, Europe, circa 1730 Folded fan, the s - Lot 50

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Pâris et la pomme d'or, Europe, circa 1730 Folded fan, the s - Lot 50
Pâris et la pomme d'or, Europe, circa 1730 Folded fan, the skin sheet mounted in the English style and painted with gouache. Shepherd Pâris offers Venus, the most beautiful of women, the golden apple. Minerva and Mercury witness the scene. The border is delicately decorated with gilded embossed paper flowers. The reverse is bordered with gilded shells and flowers, and two scenes in the Chinese style. Finely pierced ivory mount, engraved with a man and a woman in the side panels, joined in the central panel. The motifs are embellished with mother-of-pearl plaques in silver piqué. H.t. 27.7 cm-H.f. 15.7 cm (very good condition, slightly missing, restorations) In a light-blue velvet-covered case.
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