Hand-fans decorated up with animals. Why not. Taken from the July email of Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

Uncategorized 1 Minute
Hand-fan with a mother-of-pearl frame, the lace and skin leaf painted with flowers foraged by bumblebees and butterflies. ca, 1890. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Signed Daillard et Duvelleroy. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3580-bumblebees-and-butterflies-by-daillard-duvelleroy-fan-circa-1890.html
Mother-of-pearl fan, the silk and lace leaf painted with a Burmese ceremony involving an elephant and cows. ca. 1900. No further information available. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3587-elephant-and-sacred-cows.html
Wooden fan, the leather leaf painted with a dog motif. ca. 1880-1900. Austrian. Rodeck, Wein maker. Stamped on the back Gebr. Rodeck Wien. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3585-dogs-fan-by-rodeck-wien-circa-1880-1900.html
Tortoiseshell hand fan, the gauze leaf painted with a pair of kingfishers. ca. 1890. Made by Gaston and signed Gaston D. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3581-les-martin-pecheurs-eventail-de-gaston-vers-1890.html
Fan with white mother-of-pearl sticks and guards and a double skin leaf painted with monkeys by Octave Join-Lambert, painter and archaeologist (1870-1956). 1890. French. Signed and dated O. Join Lambert 1890. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3577-monkeys-fan-by-octave-join-lambert-1890.html

Paper fan leaf in watercolor of a fox terrier chasing a mouse. ca. 1900. Signed Ct. H. Blain or perhaps Cain for George Cain. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3579-the-ratter-dog-fan-leaf-circa-1900.html

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