JAPAN - Elegant folded ivory fan, Meiji period, the ivory strands decorated with maki-e o and silver lacquer depicting figures in a lakescape on one side and birds among flowering branches on the other, the frame decorated with mother-of-pearl and hardstone inlays using the "shibayama" technique. H. 26 x 43 cm (open) (Inlays missing, small chips) Condition: Lack of inlay and a break and it is disarticulated Provenance: Former collection of Mr. Huu Pham (Galerie Potterat)