Flower and plant themed fans for spring, taken from the lastest email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris. One made from plants.

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Blue monochrome fan, the leaf in a fine catgut network applied with painted blue flowers and highlighted with silver thread. Painted and varnished sticks with partially blue-tinted guards. When folded, the top of the strands reveal a blue flower design on the netting, a hallmark of certain Parisian workshops. made ca. 1760 in Paris, France. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4257-fleurs-bleues-eventail-en-catgut-vers-1760.html
Palmettes fan made from the bark of the Lagetta-Lintearia tree, ferns, and other plants growing in Jamaica with bone sticks and guards. Made ca. 1860. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4280-botanical-fan-circa-1860.html

Lilac fan with a painted organza leaf. Demi sultane mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, carved, engraved, and applied with gold and silver leaf. ca. 1890. Art Nouveau. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4268-lilac-fan-circa-1890.html
Hand-fan with pink lacquered wood sticks and guards and a pink organza leaf painted with butterflies gathering pansies. ca. 1890. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4271-pansies-and-butterflies-fan-circa-1890.html
The Carnations hand-fan in blonde tortoiseshell, the black tulle leaf applied with lace and embroidered with sequins. With a case from Duvelleroy and the lace identified by lace-maker Edwige Renaudin. Late 19th c. Art Nouveau. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4259-the-countess-s-flowers-late-19th-century-fan.html


Good condition White dahlia fan with wooden sticks and guards and a silk leaf painted with dahlias and embroidered with sequins. Signed B. Lachelin in red on the leaf. Signed Éventail Lachelin (Paris) on the reverse of the guard. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4262-white-dahlia-fan-by-lachelin-circa-1900.html

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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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