Hand-fans from Fan d’Eventails of Paris. One with mermaids and two from Duvelleroy.

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Hand-fan, 18th century in style with chinoiserie but made later. Painted skin leaf depicting a bucolic scene with gilded chinoiserie with the reverse side being painted paper, White mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, pierced, engraved, burguated and applied with gold and silver leaf. French. No exact date but signed on the reverse by the fan maker Duvelleroy so after 1827 when Duvelleroy was founded. Comes with its case from the house of Duvelleroy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4564-3.html
Black butterflies jewel fan with a lace and black gauze leaf painted and embroidered with sequins and black beads in floral basket and butterfly motifs. Black wooden sticks, jewel-like guards decorated with black beads and faceted black glass. Made ca. 1890-1905. Signed Tutin. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4566-5.html
Farandole of cherubs with flowers fan. Pont de gaze leaf with floral motifs and white mother-of-pearl sticks and guards carved with torches, pierced, engraved, and decorated with gold and silver leaf depicting a joyful farandole of cherubs. ca. 1900. Possibly by Louis-Honoré Henneguy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4569-9.html
Hand-fan with a gauze leaf embroidered with threads, sequins and fabrics and mother-of-pearl. Art Nouveau. Maker not known. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4565-4.html
Large brisé fan made of pierced and carved mother-of-pearl. Spanish. Late 20th c. Blay Villa, maker. Signed by the Spanish fan-maker Blay Villa. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/modern-fans/4568-8.html
Mermaid and seaweed fan with a golden Meunier tulle (metallic) leaf, embroidered with blue/green fabric and sequins forming small waves. Engraved and gilded horn sticks and guards, applied with paua mother-of-pearl. ca. 1900-1910. French. Signed on the reverse by the maker, Duvelleroy. Image © 2025 Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4567-7.html

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