New fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris. I’d add something about summer breezes but we’re into the next snowstorm here. Please hope I don’t get snowed in! Thanks!

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Bergerade fan. Skin leaf painted with a gallant pastoral scene and sculpted, pierced and engraved sticks and guards, decorated with gold and silver leaf and burgau. ca. 1760. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4602-bergerade-fan-circa-1760.html

Hand-fan with a paper leaf printed with birds and insects and wooden sticks and guards, the guard applied with a metal insect that I think is a ladybug. Maybe not. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4595-birds-and-insects-late-19th-century-fan.html
Fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the silk leaf embroidered with butterflies and cicadas. 19th c. Made in China. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/4600-butterflies-and-cicadas-19th-century-chinese-fan.html
Golden pheasant fan with a painted gauze leaf and wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890-1900. Ronot-Tutin, maker. Signed Ronot-Tutin. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/new-fans-february-2026/4593-golden-pheasant-by-ronot-tutin-fan-circa-1890-1900.html
Hand fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards with marquetry using Himalayan monal feathers. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4599-himalayan-monal-feather-fan-circa-1900.html
Hand-fan with a lace and red gauze leaf painted with roosters. Wooden sticks and guards with the top of the main guard carved with a polychrome rooster’s head. ca. 1890-1910. Maker not known. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4591-roosters-fan-circa-1890-1910.html
The Owl hand fan with wooden sticks and guards and a gauze leaf painted with an owl and embroidered with sequins. ca. 1909. Liberty and Company. They were/still are based in London but opened a Paris store in 1889-1890. Liberty still sells beautiful floral fabric but in 1909 they were selling fans, silver and many other Aesthetic Movement objects, too. Image credit and © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4577-the-owl-by-liberty-co-fan-circa-1909.html

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