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Fan with poetic verses. 1883-84. Tehran, Iran.
Fan with poetic verses. 1883-84. Tehran, Iran. Painted, gilded and lacquered wood. Maker not known. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/443577?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&od=on&ft=fan&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=7.
Hand fan. ca 1900.
Hand fan. ca 1900. Tortoiseshell and eagle feathers. Duvelleroy, maker. In the public domain. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eventail_en_%C3%A9caille_et_plumes_d%27aigle.jpg.
Brisé Fan. ca. 1875
Brisé Fan. ca. 1875. English. Tortoiseshell and brown silk. Maker not known. Collection of the Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian Design Museum. In the public domain. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bris%C3%A9_Fan,_ca._1875_(CH_18424371).jpg.
Lady's fan. 19th c.
Lady’s fan. 19th c. Silk with gold sequin embroidery and ebony sticks. Collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Cc Licence 4.0. via Fan, lady’s black silk fan with gold sequin embroidery and ebony sticks..

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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