Chantecler fan. Wooden sticks and guards with the paper leaf painted with a rooster to illustrate the play created by Rostand in 1910. Signed by the Spanish fan maker Bach. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4638-chantecler.html
Fan in the style of Alphonse Mucha. The black tulle leaf being applied with painted silk and embroidered with sequins, displaying in a central medallion a woman in profile in the style of Mucha or Gendrot, surrounded by flowers and mistletoe branches. Engraved and gilded horn sticks and guards. Art Nouveau in style. Duvelleroy, maker. Marked Duvelleroy on the reverse of one of the guards. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/fr/eventails-art-nouveau/4659-duvelleroy-belle-au-gui-eventail-dans-le-gout-de-mucha-periode-art-nouveau.html
Two fans made by Duvelleroy, one with a cream silk leaf and the other with pale green silk leaves, both embroidered with green and gold sequins. One with horn sticks and guards inlaid with green sequins and the fan with the cream silk leaf having horn sticks and wooden guards that are inlaid with gold stars and small green sequins. Both fans stamped Duvelleroy on the reverse of the counter-guard. French. Made ca. 1900. Revival Empire, inspired by the earlier Empire style. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4653-duvelleroy-revival-empire-fan-circa-1900.html
Small hand-fan. Silk and tulle leaf embroidered with sequins with horn sticks and white mother-of-pearl guards, engraved and gilded. Made ca. 1905 in the Empire style. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Signed Duvelleroy. Comes with a Duvellory box that is also stamped Duvelleroy. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4644-duvelleroy-coffret-rose.html
Iris and peonies hand-fan, the green silk and tulle leaf embroidered with sequins. Tortoiseshell sticks and guards. Art Nouveau, ca. 1892-1910. French. E. Kees, maker, with E. Kees written on the back of one of the sticks. The case stamped in gold with the initials M.H. on the exterior with Ernest Kees. Fabrique d’éventails. 8 Boulevard des Capucines – Paris stamped in gold on the inside. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4655-kees-iris-and-peonies-art-nouveau-fan.html
Hand-fan with a delicate silk muslin leaf applied with gold metallic paper and embroidered with gold sequins. Red-stained bone sticks and guards inlaid with gold sequins. French. First French Empire, ca. 1820. Mullot, maker. With its case, the label reading: Mullot, 130 Rue St-Denis. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4656-mullot-red-first-french-empire
Wild orchid fan. Horn sticks and guards, the silk leaf painted with wild orchids in pastel shades. French. ca. 1900. Vanier Chardin, maker. Inscribed Vanier Chardin on the reverse with the case stamped Vanier Chardin too. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/4645-vanier-chardin.html
