The Fan Collection

Two Recent Books on Lace Fans: Consisting of ''Lace Fans'', by the lace maker Ann Collier, published in 2002, containing full colour images of man...

Five Hardback Books Relating to Fans, to include: ''The Fan. Fashion and Femininity Unfolded'' by Valerie Steele, first published in the USA by Ri...

Three Fan-Related Books, to include: ''Fan Tales'' by Philippe Mesmer, published in New York in 2002. Contains full colour images of a variety of ...

''Fans of Imperial China and Fans of Imperial Japan'': Two volumes written by Neville John Irons and published in 1882. Autograph dedication by th...

Five Books Relating to Fans: To include ''Fans'' by Nancy Armstrong, with autograph dedication by the author; ''Unfolding beauty: The Art of the F...

Six Publications Relating to Fans: To include ''The Fan and Lace'' by Beryl Melville; ''A Collector's Guide to Fans over the Ages'' by Bertha de V...

Five Books Relating to The Fan: To include ''Australia's Fan Heritage'' by Audrey North, first published in 1985; ''The Fan'' by Mary Gostelow, fi...

Patents: Maryse Volet: A rare copy of ''Les Brevets d'Eventails Déposés en France Au 20eme Siecle'' being research by Madame Maryse Volet on paten...

History of the Fan: By G Woolliscroft Rhead, printed in London by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, the edition being limited to 450 copies. T...

Three Glazed Fan Cases, two shaped, one containing a horn brisé fan with 16 sticks, gently rounded tips, the case glazed at both sides. The second...

A Large Glazed Fan Case, suitable for a late 19th century fan, lined in mustard moiré silk, the back padded. Shaded upper edge, straight lower edg...

Two Shaped Fan Display Cases, with gilded wood frames, the first unglazed but the brown silk covered back panel is present. The second, larger fra...

A Large and Decorative Framed Late 19th Century Fan, blousy yellow roses painted on a pale coffee gauze, panels of a lighter machine lace serving ...

Three Montures Without Leaves, perhaps suitable for lace makers, one of bone, in mid- 18th century form (guard length 10.25 inches or 26.5cm), the...

Seven Porcelain Fan Shaped Decorative Plates, ''The Fans of the Fitzwilliam Museum'' by Compton and Woodhouse 1995. The designs are described as r...

A Circa 1900 Black Handmade Lace Fan, most likely Chantilly, the lace of floral design, the flower centres and swirling borders with intricate fil...

A Mid-19th Century Ivory Fan, the carved and well-shaped monture gilded in two shades of gold. The guards, shaped to fit a rather narrow lithograp...

Europa and the Bull: A Very Slender Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, the guards delicately piqué with steel in a floral design, the gorge sticks plai...

An 18th Century Ivory Fan, the monture very fine and slender, the gorge plain, the upper guards carved and painted with flowers leaving parts to b...

A Mid-18th Century Ivory Fan, the monture well carved, deep carving to the upper guards with flowers and a chinoiserie figure, the gorge intricate...

A Fine Early 18th Century Ivory Fan, dated 1740's, the monture relatively plain save for gentle shaping to the edges of the gorge sticks and a rop...

A Conundrum Fan, an English etched and hand coloured fan dated 1791, the upper central border stating ''Published Jan'y 1st 1791 by John Cock and ...

The History of England from William the Conqueror to the Present Time. A Late 18th Century Printed Fan, published at Sudlow's Fan Warehouse, Stran...

The Oracle, Book of Fate: A Circa 1800 Printed Fan, the monture of bone, lightly carved and pierced, more so on the upper guards. The double paper...

The New Gypsy Fan: A Late 18th Century Printed Fortune Telling Fan, the double paper leaf mounted on relatively plain bone, with some shaping to t...

The Marriage of George, Prince Of Wales, And Caroline of Brunswick, 1795. An Intriguing 18th Century Stipple Engraving and Hand-Coloured English F...

A Large 18th Century Ivory Brisé Fan, European, carved, pierced, silvered and painted. The central sticks are applied with a large oval of painted...

The Rape of the Sabine Women: A Good Late 17th or Early 18th Century Wood Fan, the guards lacquered and inset with mother-of-pearl. The single vel...

A Late 18th Century Fan in the Grand Tour Style, the monture of ivory, the gorge sticks shaped throughout with different detail to the lower gorge...

Noah's Arc: A Rare Early Printed and Hand Coloured Fan, the double leaf mounted on ivory, the gorge sticks in serpentine form. The recto, of paper...

The Crown of Immortality: A Fine Late 18th Century Ivory Fan, with an unusual subject. The monture, carved, pierced and lightly gilded, has an ori...

A Russian Royal Birth: An 18th Century Bone Fan, the monture quite slender and lightly painted, the upper guard carved and pierced and painted wit...

A Circa 1900 White Ostrich Feather Fan, with white Mother-of-pearl monture, gilded and silvered, the gorge sticks with the addition of lattice-lik...

A Large Late 19th Century Mottled Ostrich Feather Fan, mounted on quite substantial white Mother-of-pearl, the latter gilded and silvered in a flo...

A Small 20th Century Faux Tortoiseshell Brisé Fan, the section from the ribbon upwards mounted with small game bird feathers, in bands of colour, ...

A Good Pheasant Feather Fan, circa 1880's, the monture a large brisé fan in tortoiseshell, with attractively mottled gorge. Tortoiseshell loop. Th...

Two Feather Fans, one circa 1900, a tortoiseshell monture with female brown/cream ostrich feathers, quite large, additional feathers mounted on th...

A Vibrant Red Feather Fan, bi-coloured, circa 1900, the curly feathers mounted on tortoiseshell, the upper guard with extra feathers for use as a ...

A Dramatic Feather Fan, late 19th century, the monture of wood painted black, the central body of the fan mounted with red feathers in two shades,...

A Circa 1870's to 1880's Fixed Hand Fan or Screen, most likely from Brazil, a flat bone handle supporting an irregular shaped fan, the recto cover...

An Early 20th Century Peachy/Pink Ostrich Feather Fan and Matching Feather Cape, the fan carved, pierced and gilded, some additional colour added ...

An Offering to Cupid: An Unmounted Fan Leaf, finely painted with two couples in a countryside clearing next to a stream, accompanied by sheep and ...

An Unmounted Painted Fan Leaf, showing a couple dancing under the shade of trees, near water, a short distance from a stone building with tower an...

Don Quixote, The Noces De Gamache: An Unmounted Painted Fan Leaf, with a scene from the second part of the Cervantes novel, published in 1615 (Par...

The Chivalrous and Heroic Knight: An Unmounted Painted Fan Leaf, showing a depiction of the French knight Bayard in the courtyard of a fortified s...

A Good Early 19th Century Horn Brisé Fan, barrel rivet, the sticks carved and pierced and painted with flowers, the twenty inner sticks in pairs, ...

A Circa 1880's Ivory Brisé Fan, with wide wedge-shaped sticks, completely plain save for a serrated edge to all sticks. Fifteen inner sticks and t...

Three Early 19th Century Brisé Fans, to include a horn brisé with 2 painted images, one of a maiden in pink skirt and dark bodice speaking to a yo...

Two Early 19th Century Horn Brisé Fans, both carved and pierced, the stick tips pointed, one painted with a band of colourful flowers, the other w...

A Very Fine Circa 1820's Pale Horn Brisé Fan, the sticks delicately and intricately carved and pierced in several horizontal bands, resembling nee...

A Good Gothic Style Early 19th Century Wood Brisé Fan, the pale wood painted in pale pink with gilding on both guards and the stick tips. Painted ...

A Dance Fan, French, circa 1810, a double paper leaf mounted on bone with plain monture and very tiny gorge. ''Inventé par Edwd Payne, Maitre de D...

A Good Circa 1880's Carved Ivory Brisé Fan, the upper guard deeply carved with a very finely detailed scene of a hunter laid in wait for the deer ...

A Circa 1870's Wood Brisé Fan, the guards varnished, the sixteen inner sticks decoratively pierced along the top third, below which a band of pape...

A Circa 1880's Ivory Brisé Fan, the upper guard heavily carved with a winged Angel carrying a child, a naked winged cherub beneath, holding a corn...

Vienna 1907: The Concordia Ball. A Large Wooden Brisé Fan, with very wide sticks (eleven inner and two guards), issued for the occasion of the Bal...

A Victorian Brisé Tourist Travel Fan, and Exhibition Commemorative Fan 1873, printed on lightweight card, eight shaped panels linked by a central ...

A Large Tortoiseshell Brisé Fan, circa 1860's to 1880's, of fontange form, good mottling, both guards applied with a gilt metal shaped panel into ...

A Pair of Mid-19th Century Embroidered Face Screens, a fine canvas panel embroidered with Berlin woolwork, a central feature of drooping berries w...

A Trio of Royal Commemorative Silk Hand Screens, depicting The Duke of York, later King George V, and Princess Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary, pos...