Pleated Fan, mid- 19th century

Pleated fan. Paper leaf with chromolithograph showing decorative designs and Turkish scenes. Obverse, from left: the Bosphorus with the sultan’s barge; figure smoking a hookah; a slave market in Constantinople, after engraving by Thomas Allom; a woman with fan, the hippodrome, with mosque of Achmet, column of Constantine and Egyptian obelisk. Pierced and gilded ivory sticks painted with flowers and nautical scene. Gilt bail, chain and tassel.