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Fans to waft in the scent of spring. All of these from the latest email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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

Make your own summer breeze with a hand-fan a zillion times more gorgeous than the maps on weather.com. All of these taken from the June email of Fan d’Eventails, Paris, France.

Beauty with carnations hand-fan. Tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the sticks having bone tips with the leaf in very fine point de gaze needle lace and silver cartels painted with carnations and a dreamy young girl. French Second Empire. Maker not known. Lace identified by lace expert Edwige Renaudin. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4349-beauty-with-carnations-second-empire-period-fan.html
Tortoiseshell fan with feather marquetry, painted with two girls sitting on a swing. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4366-girls-feather-fan-circa-1900.html

Bone brisé fan, painted with a scene of ladies greeting the king, after an illustration by Maurice Leloir. Early 20th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4343-ladies-greeting-the-king-fan-after-maurice-leloir-early-20th-century.html
Woman’s reverie fan design. Project for a fan, paper painted with a young woman daydreaming on a balcony overlooking a river. Belle Époque. Framed and under glass. Signed H. Meunié and dated February 1893. The back bears an incomplete exhibition label with the title “Rêverie” and the name of the painter. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/4367-woman-s-reverie-fan-design-by-meunie-period-belle-epoque.html

More beautiful hand fans from the website of Fan d’éventails, Paris. So much prettier than an air conditioner and you can flirt with them too . .. Not sure they are open in real time but if you email about getting one I’m sure they’ll write you back.

silver-flower-late-19th-century-fan
Filigree silver brisé fan with ribbon. Late 19th c. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2815-silver-flower-late-19th-century-fan.html

tulips-fan-circa-1815-25
Tulips brisé fan with the horn sticks and guards finely pierced in the middle with a tulips frieze. ca. 1815-1825. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2797-tulips-fan-circa-1815-25.html

cathedral-light-fan-circa-1830
Cathedral light brisé fan. Finely pierced horn painted and encrusted with steel sequins with the tops of the sticks and guards sculpted in the Gothic style with the rivet head in clover. ca. 1830. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2818-cathedral-light-fan-circa-1830.html

Beautiful fans from Fan d’éventails, Paris. So useful if your corset lacing is too tight and you start to swoon at that holiday ball.

Fan. ca. 1910. Macaw feather with tortoiseshell.
Fan. ca. 1910. Macaw feather with tortoiseshell. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/2723-ara-eventail-en-plumes-vers-1910.html

Fan. ca. 1890.
Fan. ca. 1890. Black and red cock/rooster feathers and wood with marquetry. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/2722-black-and-red-feather-fan-cica-1890.html

Fan. ca. 1900.
Fan. ca. 1900. Armour fan encrusted with violet sequins with wooden sticks and guards. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/2733-la-vie-en-violet-fan-circa-1900.html

Imperial pineapple fan. ca. 1805-1810.
Imperial pineapple fan, the pineapple being a tribute to the Empress Joséphine who was born on Martinique. ca. 1805-1810. Silk leaf embroidered with green silk thread and gold sequins with bone. Image © Fan d’éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/2729-imperial-pineapple-fan-circa-1805-10.html

Fans from advertising campaigns for Moët & Chandon. Mostly old. All gorgeous. Various collections.

Fan made in 1994 in England for the 250th anniversary of Moet et Chandon utilizing artwork by Alphonse Mucha. Late 20th c.
Fan made in 1994 in England for the 250th anniversary of Moët et Chandon utilizing artwork by Alphonse Mucha. Late 20th c. Bartle Bogle Hegarty, publicity agency. Image © Musée Les Arts Décoratifs. Photo ©Photo Musée Les Arts Décoratifs/Jean Tholance. Fair use license. via http://collections.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/moet-chandon-1

Moët & Chandon publicity fan. 1920's. Art Deco.
Moët & Chandon publicity fan illustrated with an animated scene in a restaurant cabaret. 1920’s. Art Deco in style. Image © http://www.lecurieux.com. Fair use license. via http://lecurieux.com/eventails-anciens-antique-hand-fan/eventails-publicitaire-et-evenements/eventail-publicitaire-champagne-moet-chandon/

Publicity fan for Moët & Chandon. Contemporary.
Publicity fan for Moët & Chandon. Contemporary. Balloon shaped fan, printed with a wooden frame. Image © Fan d’éventails – Laetitia GEORGES. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/fr/eventails-publicitaires/1687-champagne-moet-chandon-eventail-publicitaire.html

Poster in the motif of a fan. 1900.
Moët & Chandon poster in the motif of a fan. 1900. Color lithograph. Georges Jules Victor Clairin, illustrator. Image © Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Fair use license. via https://www.museunacional.cat/en/colleccio/moet-chandon-leventail/georges-jules-victor-clairin/000559-c

Fans to flutter around between sips from your champagne flute. Made to be given away by Moët et Chandon and some of their friends. All very pretty and more fun than a Facebook ad. Taken from an October 2018 Coutau Begarie auction catalog.

A pair of fans after Régent including one for Moët et Chandon champagne. Wooden frames. No date.
A pair of fans after Régent including one for Moët et Chandon champagne with wooden sticks. No date. French. Image © Drouot Digital. Fair use license. via https://www.drouotonline.com/en/lots/10507832?actionParam=listLot&controllerParam=lot&fromId=99598&query=

Cockade fans printed on double sheets of paper. Advertisements for Grandes Distilleries Peureux and other firms. Wooden sticks.
Cockade fans printed on double sheets of paper. Advertisements for Grandes Distilleries Peureux and others. Wooden sticks. Image © ÉTUDE COUTAU-BÉGARIE. Fair use license. via http://www.coutaubegarie.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=9425712&np=1&lng=fr&npp=20&ordre=3&aff=&r=

Advertising fans for Champagne Krug and Paul Bur. No date.
Advertising fans for Champagne Krug and Paul Bur. No date. Printed paper with wooden frames. Image © ÉTUDE COUTAU-BÉGARIE. Fair use license. via http://www.coutaubegarie.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=9425728&np=1&lng=fr&npp=20&ordre=3&aff=&r=

"The Glory of the Allies."
“The Glory of the Allies.” Flags fan, bringing together the allies of the First World War. 20th c. Blue stained wood strands. Fan made for La Veuve Clicquot champagne. Image © ÉTUDE COUTAU-BÉGARIE. Fair use license. via http://www.coutaubegarie.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=9425813&np=1&lng=fr&npp=20&ordre=3&aff=&r=

Fans to flirt with and others to stay cool with . . .a fashion I hope is coming back. Very pretty. 19th century and all from China.

Fan with a messenger of victory motif. 1860-1880.
Fan with a messenger of victory motif. 1860-1880. Black lacquered bamboo frame with gold decoration of Chinese characters in gardens painted on both side with scenes from palaces. Silk tassel. Image © Coutau-Bégarie and Associates, Paris. Fair use license. via http://www.coutaubegarie.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=9525784&np=&lng=fr&npp=150&ordre=&aff=&r=

Wood fan with painted silk insertions. ca. 1860.
Wood fan with painted silk insertions. ca. 1860. Chinese. Collection of the Fan Museum Trust. Image © 2019 The Fan Museum. Fair use license. via https://www.thefanmuseum.org.uk/collections/fan919598

Fan with a material games motif. ca. 1880.
Fan with a material games motif. ca. 1880. Ivory and silk. Ivory stand with tortoiseshell, enamel, mother-of-pearl and gold filigree. Image © Coutau-Bégarie and Associates, Paris. Fair use license. via http://www.coutaubegarie.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=9525794&np=&lng=fr&npp=150&ordre=&aff=&r=

Fans from “Costumes parisiens. Eventails de Paquin d’après” from a 1912 issue of the Parisian fashion magazine ” Journal des Dames et des Modes”. Engraved from drawings that George Barbier and Paul Iribe made for the fashion House of Paquin, you could be chic waving them around at a party anywhere.

Fan #1.
Fan #1 Plate 42 (detail) Image © Diktats.com. Fair use license. via http://www.diktats.com/french/eventails-de-paquin-d-apres-george-barbier-et-paul-iribe-le-journal-des-dames-et-des-modes-costumes-parisiens-1912.html

Fan #2 Plate 42 (detail)
Fan #2 Plate 42 (detail) Image © Edition Originale. Fair use license. via https://www.edition-originale.com/en/prints-engravings-photographs/prints-xxe/-costumes-parisiens-eventails-de-paquin-1912-57647

Fan #3 Plate 42 (detail).
Fan #3 Plate 42 (detail). https://www.edition-originale.com/en/prints-engravings-photographs/prints-xxe/-costumes-parisiens-eventails-de-paquin-1912-57647

Perfect for a Saturday night anywhere on earth . . .vintage 1920’s Art Deco liquor advertisement promotional fans . . . .

Cognac Richarpailloud
Cognac Richarpailloud. via http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/blogs/vintage-advertising-fans-they-spoke-to-many/fan-cognac-richardpailloud/

Cognac Sorin.
Cognac Sorin. via http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/blogs/vintage-advertising-fans-they-spoke-to-many/

Amer Picon.
Amer Picon. via http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/blogs/vintage-advertising-fans-they-spoke-to-many/.