Floral motif hand fans just in time for the latest royal garden party at Buckingham Palace or the barbeque at your next door neighbor’s. A Victorian bouquet holder too but it fits right in. From Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

A thousand flowers from the Compagnie des Indes hand-fan. Brisé fan, finely pierced and carved with a blank medallion in the center to be monogramed bespoke for the purchaser, presumably. ca. 1790. Made in China. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/oriental-fans/3848-a-thousand-flowers-from-the-compagnie-des-indes-chinese-fan-circa-1790.html

Beauty with carnations hand-fan. Delicately painted paper skin leaf with synthetic or horn sticks and guards, the loop carved by the fan maker Templier. With the original box from Templier which is inscribed Eventail peint par Tante Mathilde Diétrich (fan painted by aunt Mathilde Dietrich). ca. 1900. French. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3855-beauty-with-carnations-templier-fan-circa-1900.html

Beauty with flowers fan, the balloon-shaped leaf alternating between ribbons of black silk embroidered with gold sequins and garlands of gauze painted with flowers. A central silk medallion is painted with a beautiful woman wearing a rose. Imitation tortoiseshell sticks and guards inlaid with gold sequins. Signed R. Serand ? ca. 1900-1920. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3834-beauty-with-flowers-fan-circa-1900-1920.html

Gilded brass bouquet holder with flower decoration, embellished with pearls. Mother-of-pearl handle. Pin and ring. 19th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/objects-of-vertu/3838-bouquet-holder-19th-century.html

Ashes of Roses advertising hand-fan, Bourjois, Paris, France. Wooden sticks and guards with a printed paper leaf. ca. 1925. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3823-bourjois-ashes-of-roses-advertising-fan-circa-1923.html

Carnations and butterflies, hand-fan. Bakelite sticks and guards with the silk leaf painted with butterflies frolicking among carnations. ca. 1920-1930. Art Deco. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3817-carnations-and-butterflies-art-deco-fan-circa-1920-30.html

Chinoiseries and flowers hand-fan, the paper leaf painted with flowers, birds, and insects, as seen on textiles and wallpapers imported from Asia by the Compagnie des Indes. Tinted sticks and guards, the tops of the guards carved with a Chinese figure holding a fixed fan. ca. 1760-1770. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3837-chinoiseries-and-flowers-fan-circa-1760-70.html

Daisy hand-fan, the leaf in fine lace (needlepoint) with blond tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the top of the guard with initials BM under a viscount’s crown in gold. Art Nouveau, ca. 1890-1905. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3839-delicate-daisies-art-nouveau-fan.html

Hand-fans for the old year ending and the new year about to begin, taken from the latest email from Fans d’Eventail, Paris.

Hand-fan with tinted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the black gauze leaf painted with Charon sailing the river Styx with a young dead woman. Love weeps at the stern of the boat, while in despair, the bridegroom pleads with the ferryman of death and tries to hold him back. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3756-holding-back-death-late-19th-century-fan.html

Advertising fan for the London boutique of Simpson and Company. Wooden sticks and guards, the gilt-printed paper leaf showing the various items they offered, mostly clocks, candlesticks, inkwells, and boxes. ca. 1860-1880. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3757-simpson-co-clocks-advertising-fan-circa-1860-80.html

Hand-fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, richly decorated and applied with gold leaf, the paper leaf chromolithographed and enhanced with gouache of a cheerful harvest scene. ca. 1850-1860. maker not known. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3758-summer-harvest-time-fan-circa-1850-60.html

Hand-fan with a painted skin leaf that depicts the four seasons and their related activities: the grape harvest in autumn, the wheat harvest in summer, work in the garden and the blossoming of flowers in spring, and the joys of skating in winter.
The reverse also evokes the seasons, with grapes, nature’s renewal and fire. Richly sticks and guards, delicately pierced and engraved with the same subjects. The dealer’s website does not state what material the sticks and guards are made from, but mid 18th century so I would think animal ivory or bone. ca. 1750-1760. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3744-the-four-seasons-fan-circa-1750-60.html

Love Clock hand-fan. Painted silk leaf embroidered with sequins and silver chains, the sticks and guards painted and applied with gold and silver leaves. They look to be bone or animal ivory, too. ca. 1780. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3746-the-love-clock-fan-circa-1780.html

Urns fan with bone sticks and guards, the paper leaf engraved with three closed urns (symbols of the deceased’s last home) in blue monochrome, embroidered with steel sequins and painted borders. ca. 1790-1800. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3745-urns-fan-circa-1790-1800.html

Hand-fan, the paper leaf painted with a wheat harvest time scene. Bone sticks and guards. Early 2oth c. Signed P. Garcia Rosa. Image © Fans d’Eventail. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3747-wheat-harvest-time-early-20th-century-fan.html

Watercolors of highlights of a royal visit to the French King Louis-Philippe paid by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in September of 1843. Also a commemorative fan created as a memento of the same visit. Royal Collection Trust.

Changing horses at the Abre des Princes: the char-à-bancs halted for the change-over in the forest of Eu. September 6, 1843. 1843. French. Watercolor and bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/920026/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-changing-horses-at-the-abre-des-princes-6-september

Luncheon at the Mont d’Orléans, Forest of Eu, 4 September 1843. 1843. French. Watercolor, gum and bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/2/collection/920018/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-luncheon-at-the-mont-dorleans-forest-of-eu-4

The sitting room of Queen Marie-Amélie at the Château d’Eu: Queen Victoria seated, with the Queen of the Belgians and the Queen of the French. ca. 1843. French. Watercolor and bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/920015/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-the-sitting-room-of-queen-marie-amelie-at-the

The drive to Monthuon, through Le Tréport, 3 September 1843: view from the left bank of the River Bresle, with the church of St Jaques, upper left. The Royal char-à-bancs seen driving precipitously through the town of Le Tréport. ca. 1843. French. Watercolor and white bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/5/collection/920013/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-the-drive-to-monthuon-through-le-treport-3-september

The return drive to the Château d’Eu, 3rd September 1843: the party driving at great speed in the park across the garden front of the Château. ca. 1843. French. Watercolor and white bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/6/collection/920014/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-the-return-drive-to-the-chateau-deu-3rd-september

Open air luncheon at Sainte Catherine-à-Garde-Chasse. 6 September 1843 the party round the long table, under trees, in the Forest of Eu. 1843. French. Watercolor and bodycolor. Jean Antoine Simeon Fort, artist (1793-1861). Signed and dated. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/7/collection/920027/royal-visit-to-louis-philippe-open-air-luncheon-at-ste-catherine-a-garde-chasse-6

Hand-fan depicting Queen Victoria’s arrival at Treport on the late afternoon of September 2, 1843 on board the newly completed royal yacht Victoria and Albert, seen here with its central steam funnel, to right of center. Paper leaf with guards and sticks of carved tortoiseshell backed with mother-of-pearl. The box bears the trade name of Vanier of Paris. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/12/collection/25344/fan-depicting-queen-victorias-arrival-at-treport-1843

These watercolors along with other watercolors and presumably the fan were presented by King Louis-Philippe to Queen Victoria at the time of his return visit to Windsor, in October 1844. So all of it presumably commissioned by the French king as gifts for the British Queen.

Hand-fans to waft spring or fall in, depending on where you are. All of these taken from the September email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris, France. Most of these were made for children, dolls and are otherwise miniature.

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

Hand-fans in fun colors just in time for late spring and early summer. From Fan d’Eventail, Paris.

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

Hand-fans in shades of red. From the February email of Fans d’Eventail, Paris.

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

Antique hand-fans. All of these from a current Sotheby’s auction catalogue. Please note that a few which were made in the 18th and 19th centuries have elephant ivory sticks and guards. To my mind that makes it all right to use here. If it bothers you please look at the other two.

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

Hand fans. So much prettier than the Ikea ones. All of these from Fan d’eventail of Paris.

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

More from Fan d’eventail of Paris. Taken from their July email.

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

Hand fans that were souvenirs at various world’s fairs. All more fun than the electric kind. Prettier, too.

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

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