Tag: Liberty and Company

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!

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

“Tudric” pewter from Liberty and Company of London. Part of the Arts and Crafts movement and made around 1902.

Vase with a flared trumpet form, model number "01040." ca. 1902.
Vase with a flared trumpet form, model number “01040.” ca. 1902. Pierced body cast with ascending plants, raised on a spreading foot. Manufacturers marks on the underside. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2019. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/404547/a-liberty-and-co-tudric-pewter-vase-of-flared-trumpet-form

Butter dish. Open tri-handle form with stylized honesty leaves in relief and its original Powell glass liner. ca. 1902-05.
Butter dish. Open tri-handle form with stylized honesty leaves in relief and its original Powell glass liner. ca. 1902-05. Archibald Knox, designer. Marks beneath with model number 0162. Image © 1998-2019 cherubsantiquegallery.com. Fair use license. via https://www.cherubantiquesgallery.com/items/1394720/Archibald-Knox-Liberty-Tudric-Butter-Dish

Closed-case clock. Embossed Celtic knot design and a clock face enameled in blue, green and copper. ca. 1902.
Closed-case clock. Embossed Celtic knot design and a clock face enameled in blue, green and copper. ca. 1902. Archibald Knox, designer. Image courtesy Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, N.J. Image © 2007-2018 LiveAuctioneers. Fair use license. via https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/be-smart/archibald-knox-and-his-timeless-tudric-ware/

Satin finish pewter vase with three handles, style #030. ca. 1903.
Satin finish pewter vase with three handles, style #030. ca. 1903. Signed on the bottom production “0” Tudric and 030 style number. Image © 2019, Greenans Cottage. Fair use license. via

Biscuit box with a Repoussé pattern of stylized flowers.
Biscuit box with a repoussé pattern of stylized flowers, model 0194.Early 20th c. Archibald Knox, designer. Stamped “TUDRIC ENGLISH PEWTER, LIBERTY & CO.” Image ©2019 LoveAntiques.com. Fair use license. via https://www.loveantiques.com/antique-metalware/pewter/arts-and-crafts-liberty-and-co-tudric-pewter-biscuit-box-by-archibald-knox-118379