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Zephyr and Flora, Europe, ca. 1750 Folded fan,...

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Zephyr and Flora, Europe, ca. 1750 Folded fan, the leaf in skin, mounted in English, painted of Flora and Zephyr after Antoine Coypel. Lovers and Hymen are watching them. Some applications of mother-of-pearl haliotide to evoke butterflies. Reverse: two fishermen in a sketched landscape. Cut-out, engraved, gilded and silvered mother-of-pearl mounting of a birdman presenting caged birds to two young women. Baskets of flowers and spades in cartels. H.t. 30 cm-H.f. 14,8 cm (restorations, wear, lacks)