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A Venetian Masquerade, a fine fan painted with elegant masked couples dancing, two dressed as figures from the Commedia del Arte, Pierrot and Punchinello, others dressed in Turkish dress, the orchestra in a pulpit in the foreground, the verso with a couple wearing a black and a white mask, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with flowers and painted with Harlequin, Punchinello and Pierrot, and with shells and music - 10.5in. (26.5cm.), English, circa 1760 (lower guardstick repaired)
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A Venetian Masquerade, a fine fan painted with elegant masked couples dancing, two dressed as figures from the Commedia del Arte, Pierrot and Punchinello, others dressed in Turkish dress, the orchestra in a pulpit in the foreground, the verso with a couple wearing a black and a white mask, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with flowers and painted with Harlequin, Punchinello and Pierrot, and with shells and music - 10.5in. (26.5cm.), English, circa 1760 (lower guardstick repaired)

細節
A Venetian Masquerade, a fine fan painted with elegant masked couples dancing, two dressed as figures from the Commedia del Arte, Pierrot and Punchinello, others dressed in Turkish dress, the orchestra in a pulpit in the foreground, the verso with a couple wearing a black and a white mask, the ivory sticks carved and pierced with flowers and painted with Harlequin, Punchinello and Pierrot, and with shells and music - 10.5in. (26.5cm.), English, circa 1760 (lower guardstick repaired)
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注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
拍場告示
The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, is organizing a major Exhibition "Harlequin Unmasked: the Commedia dell'Arte in Eighteenth-Century Europe" which will take place between September 6th 2001 and January 6 2002. They would very much like to borrow this fan for the exhibition.