Hand-fans for the old year ending and the new year about to begin, taken from the latest email from Fans d’Eventail, Paris.

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Hand-fan with tinted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the black gauze leaf painted with Charon sailing the river Styx with a young dead woman. Love weeps at the stern of the boat, while in despair, the bridegroom pleads with the ferryman of death and tries to hold him back. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3756-holding-back-death-late-19th-century-fan.html
Advertising fan for the London boutique of Simpson and Company. Wooden sticks and guards, the gilt-printed paper leaf showing the various items they offered, mostly clocks, candlesticks, inkwells, and boxes. ca. 1860-1880. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3757-simpson-co-clocks-advertising-fan-circa-1860-80.html
Hand-fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, richly decorated and applied with gold leaf, the paper leaf chromolithographed and enhanced with gouache of a cheerful harvest scene. ca. 1850-1860. maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3758-summer-harvest-time-fan-circa-1850-60.html
Hand-fan with a painted skin leaf that depicts the four seasons and their related activities: the grape harvest in autumn, the wheat harvest in summer, work in the garden and the blossoming of flowers in spring, and the joys of skating in winter.
The reverse also evokes the seasons, with grapes, nature’s renewal and fire. Richly sticks and guards, delicately pierced and engraved with the same subjects. The dealer’s website does not state what material the sticks and guards are made from, but mid 18th century so I would think animal ivory or bone. ca. 1750-1760. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3744-the-four-seasons-fan-circa-1750-60.html
Love Clock hand-fan. Painted silk leaf embroidered with sequins and silver chains, the sticks and guards painted and applied with gold and silver leaves. They look to be bone or animal ivory, too. ca. 1780. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3746-the-love-clock-fan-circa-1780.html
Urns fan with bone sticks and guards, the paper leaf engraved with three closed urns (symbols of the deceased’s last home) in blue monochrome, embroidered with steel sequins and painted borders. ca. 1790-1800. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3745-urns-fan-circa-1790-1800.html
Hand-fan, the paper leaf painted with a wheat harvest time scene. Bone sticks and guards. Early 2oth c. Signed P. Garcia Rosa. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3747-wheat-harvest-time-early-20th-century-fan.html

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