Fans & Finery

The Spring Fans and Finery auction features unusual needlework in the form of 18th c samplers, band and otherwise, and an exquisitely detailed pic...

A late 18th century Chinese finely carved wood brisé fan, featuring a central shield very delicately painted with a rural village scene near water...

An 18th century mother of pearl fan with leaf of painted silk, showing a man seated on a throne, a mother and child kneeling before him, set by wa...

Two late 18th century wood fans, the first a brisé with rounded tips, pierced, with applied cartouche and two vignettes showing scenes of daily ac...

The 18th century: a very classical folding fan, the double paper leaf with central cartouche showing a lady holding a red rose, being pursued by a...

A late 18th century Grand Tour fan, the monture of mother of pearl, gilded, with design to the gorge, both guards carved in sections, with a lady ...

A horn brisé fan c 1820’s, with barrel head, piqué, 20 pointed sticks, and two guards, painted with a band of summer flowers, guard approx. 15.5cm...

Five c 1890’s fans plus an assortment of tourist and other fans: a large bone fan, the leaf a good heavy cream silk, backed in cream, the recto pa...

C 1890’s, an unusual incised bone fan mounted with a leaf of cream silk, bordered with a floral machine lace, and featuring a sketch in the centre...

Early 19th century fans: a very classical bone fan in the Grand Tour style, c 1830’s, the double paper leaf deep, leaving a small, unadorned gorge...

Three fan leaves, framed and glazed, prints then coloured, all showing gatherings of different types outdoors, with different social levels determ...

C 1860/70’s, a good mother of pearl fan with extensive gilding, deep gorge and well carved sticks, the central gorge with a large oval in which th...

A fine French wood cockade fan, patented, see gold metal plate on the moveable shaft holding the dark green silk leaf, polished wood with thin gol...

A very fine German carved wood monture, perhaps Bavaria, late 19th century, both guards applied with silver metal initials, the gorge sticks compl...

Unfolding Pictures: Fans in the Royal Collection: hardback book in full colour, by Jane Roberts, Prudence Sutcliffe and Susan Mayor, presenting th...

A wood fan, the monture carved and pierced, painted gold, c 1870’s, the black silk satin leaf with black machine lace to the top edge, the sticks ...

A good regency fixed fan, shaped, the recto applied with gold foil and a gravure showing a mother asleep in a chair, a dog laid at her feet, her y...

Of topographical interest: Five fans, 19th and 20th century, the first a wood brisé, of the type made in Austria, previously lot 237 in the Christ...

Fans and accessories, late 19th century to early 20th century: Four fans, the first with cream silk satin leaf, a central cartouche depicting a pa...

Three fans from the 1890’s: a large wood fan with cream cotton leaf, painted with Pierrot kneeling on a branch and looking through a telescope, th...

Four late 19th century fans: the first quite simple, French, wood monture, The paper leaf inscribed with the date of 24th Avril 1897 and the plac...

Four brisé fans c 1820’s: the first a triple image example in pale horn with pointed tips, twenty-one inner sticks and two guards, the recto with ...

Four late 19th century Spanish tourist fans: The first showing the village street scene of the Barber of Seville, the client holding the shaving b...

A large fan from the Felix Tal collection, purchased in 1994, the bone monture etched with F. Tal 1892 -1967 who housed his fan collection in Amst...

A varied selection of 19th and 20th century fans, comprising a very large example with black wood monture and plain black glazed cotton leaf, the ...

Fans In Fashion by Anna G. Bennett and Ruth person, 76 fans from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, soft back copy; togeth...

Three 20th century fans: the first, in white mother of pearl, a pastiche of an 18th century fan, the monture elegantly shaped, pierced and gilded,...

A Regency engraved and coloured fan with double paper leaf, and slender wood monture with bone thumb guards, the leaf featuring a young mother in ...

A selection of small brisé fans: a brisé fan advertising Victoria Luise, a shield on the lower guard with initials HAPAG, a cruise ship company, ...

Circa 1890’s, a German folding fan, en camaieu, believed to show the Ridge of Valkyries, with several interesting features: stag hunt in the back...

Two mid-19th century fans, the first with carved and pierced wood sticks, painted in gold, the cream silk leaf painted en grisaille, a water fron...

A wood brisé fan of the type produced in Austria and then applied with scraps, in ascending size, many with mottos in Latin, and featuring differe...

Royal Interest: a paper fan printed with a portrait of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria of Spain, who married in 1906, the reserves with depic...

A black wood fan, carved and gilded, early 20th c, mounted with a silk leaf, painted with a courting couple, a chaperone to the side, the reserves...

18th to 20th century brisé fans: a c 1820’s tortoiseshell fan with pointed sticks, pierced, alternate sticks painted with flower heads, barrel hea...

An Art Nouveau fan, the monture of bone, shaped and gilded, the silk leaf painted with a lady in a stylized landscape reaching to pick flowers, he...

Two Jenny Lind or Palmette fans for a young girl, the first with elegant and slender bone monture, the narrow panels in cream silk, delicately pai...

Two cream fans from the 1890’s, the first painted with a gathering of naked cherubs or children on a rowing boat, whilst the reserves portray Cupi...

A hand painted 20th century fan ( Kathy Maxwell, former member of the Fan Circle International), given to the vendor in 2002, recto/verso showing ...

Original and unique fan painted by former fan Circle International member Kathy Maxwell of Australia, in 2019, on a modern monture, the paper leaf...

Original fan-designed machine-stitched coverlet by Doris Maxwell, mother of former Fan Circle International member Kathy Maxwell in Australia, dat...

John and Pippa Brooker: “Frizzleton Voles Fan Factory, a fan designed by Pippa, the monture by John, dated 2005, delightful and humorous depiction...

Spare Lot

A “Mouchoir” fan, an example of the scarce fans with leaf shaped as a square, like a handkerchief, the leaf of cream paper painted with a smiling...

An Art Nouveau fan, in ballon form, the shaped monture of blonde tortoiseshell, note the shapes when closed and on its side, the gorge gilded, the...

A large, late 19th century Brussels bobbin lace fan, with aspects of Ghent Valenciennes to the flowers, the leaf with two gauze panels, a winged c...

A good Brussels lace fan, mounted on mother of pearl, burgau, including the ribs, the leaf most likely of Point d’Angleterre with Point de Gaze fo...

A white Mother of Pearl fan, with a hint of colour, the guards and gorge with decorative piercing and light etching, the ribs also MOP, mounted wi...

Antique Lace: an early 20th century Maltese silk lace fan, the leaf mounted on pink mother of pearl sticks, gilded, the Maltese cross featuring in...

A 19th century Brussels Bobbin Appliqué lace fan, the monture of white mother of pearl, the head shaped, the lace designed with flowers abs leaves...

A large late 19th century Carrickmacross lace fan, worked with more detail towards the upper edge, with large areas of fine and varied fillings, m...

A 19th century tortoiseshell fan mounted with a black Chantilly bobbin lace leaf, the design of roses, the tortoiseshell with attractive mottling,...

Antique Lace: a c 1890’s Mixed Brussels lace fan, the monture of pink mother of pearl, the deep leaf with three needle point flowers surrounded by...

Antique Lace :A large Mixed Brussels and white mother of Pearl fan, c 1890’s, the lace leaf with a central floral spray, the roses of Point de Gaz...

Ann Collier; a shaped fan/sun shading hat, of the folding type easy to pack, the monture in light wood, the fabric black cotton, applied with need...

Ann Collier: two fans, the first with bone monture carved, shaped and pierced, the leaf comprising cream silk panels painted with pink roses and s...

Ann Collier: a unique fan from the Gilbert and Sullivan series, needle lace against a bobbin ground, the monture of wood painted white, the leaf s...

Ann Colier: a unique fan from the Gilbert and Sullivan series, needle lace against a bobbin ground, the monture of bone, the leaf showing a scene ...