Brisé fans with their carved or pierced sticks and just in time for summer. From various museum collections.

Uncategorized 1 Minute
Brisé Fan. ca. 1710-1720.
Brisé Fan. ca. 1710-1720. Ivory sticks with tortoiseshell with Chinese style decoration. Possibly Chinese or European and probably painted in the Netherlands. Image © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Fair use license. via https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/collections/fans/117671
Brisé fan. ca. 1830-55.
Brisé fan. ca. 1830-55. Russian. Carved ivory blades. Guards decorated with silver-gilt, garnets, pearls and turquoise with a silk ribbon. Said to have belonged to a grand duchess. Image © 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fair use license. via https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/bris%C3%A9-fan-124388
Brisé fan. 1910-1929.
Brisé fan. 1910-1929. Silk leaf with sequins and silvered wood sticks with mirror. Image © Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York. Fair use license. via https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18316549/
Brisé fan. 1875.
Brisé fan. 1875. Qing Dynasty, Chinese. Painted feathers, peacock feathers, ivory, silk and brass. Image © 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fair use license. via https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/feather-bris%C3%A9-fan-125856

Published by sarahbguestperry

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.

Published

Leave a Reply