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Large fan with rods, ring and nail button made of blonde horn. The country is of triple gauze, with two superimposed layers in the obverse and one in the reverse, covering part of the rods, that in that segment present openwork decoration and are covered with beige paper. \The visible part of the rods and the guards are smooth. For its part, the country presents application of lace in the same color as the background on the outer perimeter. The rest is painted with a motif of allegorical figures, formed by a set of four personages. The central one is a female figure reclining on the left, wearing a green tunic and adorning her loose hair with a garland of flowers. To her right, a little love child and another foreshortened female figure, wearing similar clothing and with her hair tied back with a blue ribbon. To the right of the central figure, another female figure with her back turned, looking at her. The ensemble is completed with a kind of veil floating in the air. It presents the signature of the author. \The triple layer of gauze is distributed so that the painting is on the most superficial, the second is used to fix the country to the rod on the front and the third on the back. \There is little evidence of women decorating fans. This is one of the cases.
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Title: Fan
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Large fan with rods, ring and nail button made of blonde horn.
The country is of triple gauze, with two superimposed layers in the obverse and one in the reverse, covering part of the rods, that in that segment present openwork decoration and are covered with beige paper.
\The visible part of the rods and the guards are smooth.
For its part, the country presents application of lace in the same color as the background on the outer perimeter.
The rest is painted with a motif of allegorical figures, formed by a set of four personages.
The central one is a female figure reclining on the left, wearing a green tunic and adorning her loose hair with a garland of flowers.
To her right, a little love child and another foreshortened female figure, wearing similar clothing and with her hair tied back with a blue ribbon.
To the right of the central figure, another female figure with her back turned, looking at her.
The ensemble is completed with a kind of veil floating in the air.
It presents the signature of the author.
\The triple layer of gauze is distributed so that the painting is on the most superficial, the second is used to fix the country to the rod on the front and the third on the back.
\There is little evidence of women decorating fans.
This is one of the cases.

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