A heat wave to pretty up and the perfect solution. Antique hand fans to make your own breeze, from the latest email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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Arabic dance card fan. Peau d’âne (cardboard) painted with a woman dressed in oriental style with what are probably bone guards which are encrusted with sequins and feature a small pen nestled at the top of the main guard. 1815-1925. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4442-arabic-dance-dance-card-fan-circa-1815-25.html

Pair of advertising hand-fans with paper leaves and wooden sticks and guards. Art Deco period. One for the Casino des Fleurs in Vichy, signed by Riom and the other signed by Umberto Brunelleschi. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4429-belles-orientales-eventails-de-riom-et-brunelleschi-periodeart-deco.html

Chinoiserie painted brisé horn fan. ca. 1820-1830. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4443-chinoiserie-with-acrobats-fan-circa-1820-30.html

Memories of a trip to Egypt fan. Broken wooden fan, re-pierced and painted with several views of Egypt: on one side, the Great Gate of Karnak, the island of Pirilé (Philae?) and the Ibn Touloun Mosque in Cairo; on the other side, the Nile floods of 1866 (localized in French) and blessings to the Prophet in Arabic. Signed and dated C. Gaber 1867. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4432-memories-of-a-trip-to-egypt-fan-circa-1867.html
Fan from the East India Company for the Western market. Skin leaf, mounted in the English style, finely painted in gouache with a scene of trade or judgment between Chinese protagonists, on a pink background imitating wood and a trompe l’oeil ribbon frame
The reverse side is painted with peonies and cherry blossom branches. Finely pierced sticks and guards engraved with geometric decorations and floral motifs. ca. 1760-1770. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4435-that-s-him-east-india-company-fan-circa-1760-70.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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