A superb 19th century Meiji period Japanese shibayama ivory and wood folding fan, the two ivory guard sticks delicately inlaid with five different insects each in mother-of-pearl and other semi-precious stones, the twenty-eight inside sticks thinly cut in sandle-wood and mounted with silk-like paper leaves finely painted in bright color to both sides with a pair of exotic birds beside a lake amongst water plants and fl ...click for details