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Bone brisé doll fan with an interlaced pink ribbon. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3649-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
Large wooden brisé hand fan. On the reverse of each blade, metal supports are studded to form a sort of domino cabriolet, featuring chromolithographed papers depicting children and flowers. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3631-children-and-flowers-giant-fan-early-20th.html
Hand-fan made for a child, the silk leaf painted and embroidered in the motif of a swan. Horn sticks and guards. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3632-elegante-au-cygne-eventail-d-enfant-vers-1900.html
Small brisé hand-fan made for a child with the leaf painted and applied with engraving. Bone sticks and guards. ca. 1900. Henry À la Pensée, maker. Signed on the reverse by Henry À la Pensée, a Paris dealer on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3645-for-a-child-fan-from-henry-a-la-pensee-circa-1900.html
Miniature brisé hand fan, the leaf painted and varnished with the motif of a fountain and windmill. Bone sticks and guards. Late 19th-early 20th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3647-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
Children’s hand-fan, the satin leaf printed with children’s games. Wooden sticks with the guards being made of gutta percha. Late 19th c. Lauronce, maker. Signed by Lauronce. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3628-gutta-percha-and-childrens-fan-by-lauronce-late-19th-century.html
Hand-fan with wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with little flowers. ca. 1900. Lachelin, maker. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3644-little-flowers-by-lachelin-fan-circa-1900.html
Miniature hand-fan in pierced and painted bone with an interlaced ribbon. 19th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3650-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
The children of the Bon Marché palmette paper fan with a printed leaf and an interlaced ribbon. Belle Epoque. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3652-the-children-of-the-bon-marche-belle-epoque-fan.html
Flower children hand-fan with a painted and printed silk leaf. Wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3643-the-flower-children-fan-circa-1890.html
Miniature brisé bone hand-fan, painted in the style of Wedgwood earthenware. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3630-little-wedgwood-miniature-fan-circa-1900.html
Painted wood brisé doll hand-fan. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3648-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
A small brisé fan in bakelite evoking the Futurism movement by its composition and its colors. ca. 1920-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3530-futurism-fan-circa-1920-30.html
Fan with a wallpaper leaf in the taste of the Symbolists. 20th c. Framed and under glass. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3535-symbolist-hill-fan-leaf-xxth-century.html
Circus fan with a paper leaf painted with a clown and a little monkey. Wooden sticks and guards, the throat partially painted, the master guard applied with a blue tinted mother-of-pearl. 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3520-the-colors-of-the-circus-20th-century-fan.html
Small hand-fan, the leaf in fuchsia pink fabric painted with an elegant couple ready to dance, their heads in painted Bakelite with Galalith sticks and guards in imitation of tortoiseshell. Monogrammed on the bottom left. ca. 1920s-1930s. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3529-the-marquis-at-the-party-art-deco-fan.html
Small “Sultane” hand-fan, the blue silk leaf applied with a white lace border. “Sultane” sticks and guards made of engraved and grilled bone. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3534-sultane-blue-fan-circa-1870-1900.html
Checkerboard dislocation or magical trick fan in wood and silk ribbons. ca. 1900. From a patent registered in 1879 by Th. Heaulme-Fleury. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3461-ribbons-dislocation-magical-fan-cica-1880-90.html
Cockcade sliding fan with silk screen sliding with a small push button to fit into a wooden handle. ca. 1870. Patented model, maybe the one of Salomon-Isaac Meyer in 1870. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fixed-fans/3476-the-indispensable-necessaire-fan-circa-1880.html
Dislocating or trick fan in wood and silk ribbons. ca. 1880-1890. From a patent registered in 1879 by Th. Heaulme-Fleury. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3460-ribbons-dislocation-magical-fan-cica-1880-90.html
Hand-fan with bells. Wood sticks and guards with the fabric leaf being embroidered with bells. ca. 1880-1890. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3474-fan-with-bells-circa-1880-90.html
Hand-fan with a painted vellum leaf depicting various scenes of agricultural labor, contained by broad decorative borders depicting flora, fauna and chinoiserie figures. Elephant ivory sticks and guards, the sticks finely pierced with foliate patterns and and creating silhouette scenes against the mother-of-pearl ground of an elegant group with a horse-drawn carriage. The pierced guards with a ground of colored foil. 1760-1770. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-v-lecrin/an-ivory-and-painted-vellum-fan-1760-1770?locale=en
Hand-fan with the vellum leaf depicting a mythological scene, possibly Diana and Actaeon. Pierced horn sticks with stylized foliate patterns. The pierced guards with a central medallion of a vase of flowers surmounted by a ribbon and a plaque containing the number “662”. Early 19th c. French. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-v-lecrin/a-horn-and-vellum-fan-french-early-19th-century?locale=en
Horn and silk hand-fan. Pierced and sequined silk leaves the horn sticks and mounts studded with silver. 19th c. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-v-lecrin/a-horn-and-silk-fan-19th-century?locale=en
Hand-fan with a chicken-skin leaf and elephant ivory sticks and guards. The ivory sticks and guards pierced with floral motifs and a fine mesh ground enclosing scenes of musicians and painters, bound using a mother-of-pearl washer, the chicken-skin leaf depicting a group of chinoiserie figures within vignettes of fruit, flowers and insects. Mid 18th c. Probably French. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-v-lecrin/an-ivory-fan-probably-french-mid-18th-century?locale=en
Lace and mother-of-pearl hand-fan. The sticks and guards in finely pierced mother-of-pearl and heightened with gold foil, the sticks including two engraved portrait medallions, the guards centrally featuring an ornate monogram studded with diamonds and a lady with a fan surmounted by a cherub. The leaf in Ponte-de-Gaze lade with a floral pattern. The box being marked Spaulding and Company/Jewelers and Silversmiths/36 Avenue de l’Opera/Paris. 1890-1900. Made in Paris, France by Spaulding and Company. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/hotel-lambert-une-collection-princiere-volume-v-lecrin/a-lace-and-mother-of-pearl-fan-by-spaulding-1890?locale=en
Pair of beach themed advertising fans. Wood cockade fan with paper printed for Grands Vins du Cap Corse. Th other in wood with printed paper leaf, an advertisement for Casino de Biarritz. Early 20th c. Image © Fans d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3282-on-the-beach-two-advertising-fans-20th-century.html
Salerno, Pompeii, and Paestum Grand Tour Fan with a painted paper leaf. One side is the bay of Salerno and the other side is Paestum, Palazzo Genovese of Salerno and Pompeii. Mother of pearl sticks and guards. Image © Fans d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3289-salerno-pompeii-and-paestum-grand-tour-fan-early-20th.html
Pair of hand-fans with an early airplane motif. Painted paper with wood sticks and guards. One fan painted on paper with the other fan printed on paper and inscribed Institut profesionnel féminin. Early 20th c. Image © Fans d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3296-the-planes-early-20th-century-fans.html
Hand-fan with an Angkor theme. Painted paper leaf with a skin back and sticks and guards in black mother of pearl with the guard applied with a silver initial. Signed and dated H. Bethaut 1892 and Duvelleroy on the back. From the Michel Maignan Collection. Image © Fan d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fans-by-painter-artist/3287-angkor-fan-by-berthaut-and-duvelleroy-1892.html
Hand-fan with a Cambodia motif. Painted fabric leaf with mother of pearl sticks and guards. Signed and dated FP 1901. Image © Fan d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3288-cambodia-fan-circa-1901.html
Hand-fan with an Italian landscape motif. Painted paper leaf with the back being painted skin. Bone and mother of pearl sticks and guards. ca. 1825-1835. Image © Fan d’eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3286-italian-landscape-fan-circa-1825-35.html
World’s Fair of 1867, commemorative fan.
Wooden brisé fan, printed with view of the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1867. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3163-world-s-fair-of-1867-commemorative-fan.html
Hand fan from the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition/The White City, Chicago, Illinois. The fan having been presented at the World’s Fair in gift shops. ca. 1892. American. Finely detailed print on paper, attached to expanding wood elements, with brass loop handle. J. W. Green, maker. Image © 1998-2022 Ruby Lane, Inc. Fan itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rubylane.com/item/1876169-1214/Worldx92s-Fair-Columbian-Ex78position-1892-Fan
Two Saint Louis 1904 World’s Fair souvenir fans. Both with multicolored images on paper with elaborately painted wooden sticks. “A deed of the pen’ show across the top of the map showing “The Louisiana Purchase.:” 1904. American. Maker not known. Part of the Saint Louis estate of Patricia Villmer, founding member of the World’s Fair Society. Image © 2022 Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers. . Fair use license. via https://www.selkirkauctions.com/auction-lot/two-st.-louis-1904-world-s-fair-souvenir-fans_F4243BF832
Ivory brisé hand-fan painted and varnished with a Biblical scene of Eleazar refusing to eat pork. The guard applied with mother-of-pearl, engraved. Early 18th c. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3074-eleazar-refusing-to-eat-pork-early-18th-century-fan.html
Hand-fan called a bouquet holder that once closed forms a bouquet of flowers. Paper leaf printed and enhanced with gouache and bone sticks and guards. The guards with mirrors and bouquets in feather and fabric, with two paper hollows at the top of each guard to slip in fresh flowers. ca. 1855. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3075-fan-with-bouquet-circa-1855.html The website at the link has many photographs of it folded up into a bouquet holder holding real flowers.
Large hand-fan, the leaf in black gauze painted with angels fishing and embroidered with needle lace with flowers and foliage. White mother of pearl sticks and guards, engraved and applied with silver leaves. ca. 1890-1895. French. Signed “L. Boillat,” Lucie Boillat having been a French miniaturist painter. Image © Fans d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3085-fishing-angels-fan-by-boillat-circa-1890-95.html
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