. The New Beginning: An Ivory Brisé Fan with tortoiseshell thumb guards, painted to mark the end of the Great War, 1914 - 1918. The recto features a young lady carrying the French flag, watching from a hilltop as the sun rises over distant mountains on a new day, the village sleeping below her and a sole horseman out riding in the fields. The recto is full of allusions to the war, and French pride, from the Allied flags on the guard, the cockerel for France on the gorge, the laurel on the flag pole, and RF for République francaise on the lower guard and atop the bird. The verso is a more sombre reminder of the human cost of the war with a tombstone erected in a clearing where presumably soldiers fell. On this side the gorge is more subdued with simple flowers tied with the three coloured stripe of French ribbon. Guard length 9.5 inches or 24cm

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