Floral motif hand fans just in time for the latest royal garden party at Buckingham Palace or the barbeque at your next door neighbor’s. A Victorian bouquet holder too but it fits right in. From Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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A thousand flowers from the Compagnie des Indes hand-fan. Brisé fan, finely pierced and carved with a blank medallion in the center to be monogramed bespoke for the purchaser, presumably. ca. 1790. Made in China. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/3848-a-thousand-flowers-from-the-compagnie-des-indes-chinese-fan-circa-1790.html
Beauty with carnations hand-fan. Delicately painted paper skin leaf with synthetic or horn sticks and guards, the loop carved by the fan maker Templier. With the original box from Templier which is inscribed Eventail peint par Tante Mathilde Diétrich (fan painted by aunt Mathilde Dietrich). ca. 1900. French. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3855-beauty-with-carnations-templier-fan-circa-1900.html



Beauty with flowers fan, the balloon-shaped leaf alternating between ribbons of black silk embroidered with gold sequins and garlands of gauze painted with flowers. A central silk medallion is painted with a beautiful woman wearing a rose. Imitation tortoiseshell sticks and guards inlaid with gold sequins. Signed R. Serand ? ca. 1900-1920. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3834-beauty-with-flowers-fan-circa-1900-1920.html
Gilded brass bouquet holder with flower decoration, embellished with pearls. Mother-of-pearl handle. Pin and ring. 19th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/objects-of-vertu/3838-bouquet-holder-19th-century.html
Ashes of Roses advertising hand-fan, Bourjois, Paris, France. Wooden sticks and guards with a printed paper leaf. ca. 1925. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3823-bourjois-ashes-of-roses-advertising-fan-circa-1923.html
Carnations and butterflies, hand-fan. Bakelite sticks and guards with the silk leaf painted with butterflies frolicking among carnations. ca. 1920-1930. Art Deco. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3817-carnations-and-butterflies-art-deco-fan-circa-1920-30.html
Chinoiseries and flowers hand-fan, the paper leaf painted with flowers, birds, and insects, as seen on textiles and wallpapers imported from Asia by the Compagnie des Indes. Tinted sticks and guards, the tops of the guards carved with a Chinese figure holding a fixed fan. ca. 1760-1770. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3837-chinoiseries-and-flowers-fan-circa-1760-70.html
Daisy hand-fan, the leaf in fine lace (needlepoint) with blond tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the top of the guard with initials BM under a viscount’s crown in gold. Art Nouveau, ca. 1890-1905. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3839-delicate-daisies-art-nouveau-fan.html

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