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  • Brisé Fan, late 18th–19th century

    Brisé fan. Ivory sticks pierced and carved with florals, stripes and a shield in center containing monogram RH (?) in Spencerian letters. Landscape carved on guard.

  • Brisé Fan, early 18th century

    Brisé fan. Ivory sticks, painted gilded and varnished. Obverse: large cartouche enclosing an outdoor scene with figures under a canopy, putti and a woman serving wine. Gorge showing a chinoiserie…

  • Brisé Fan (France), 1720–29

    Brisé fan of carved ivory painted in oils and finished with Vernis Martin; each face has a leaf and gorge area. On the front, the leaf shows an outdoor scene…

  • Brisé Fan (China), early 19th century

    Brisé fan. Lacquered wood sticks; black ground with figures in landscape, surrounded with borders and other decorative detail exquisitely painted in two tones of gold and minute touches of vermillion.…

  • Brisé Fan (China), late 18th–early 19th century

    Brisé fan. Metal filigree sticks with polychrome enamel. Guards are solid metal molded with landscape, figures and engraving.Green connecting ribbon.

  • Brisé Fan, early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Carved wood blades painted from base to tip with a stylized design of violets and snow-drops; the guards are carved with the same design. Connected with a painted…

  • Brisé Fan (Scotland), early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Twenty-two feathers of the golden eagle of the Scottish highlands mounted on tortoise shell sticks. One guard stick and a gold monogram: “BF” for Beatrix Farrand. Black silk…

  • Brisé Fan (USA), 1880–1900

    Brisé fan. Natural-colored, uncurled ostrich feathers applied to sticks which are tortoise shell to the shoulder; the remainder to the tip is whale bone to which the feathers are attached…

  • Brisé Fan, ca. 1875

    Brisé fan with tortoise shell sticks. Brown silk connecting ribbon. Black metal bail and brown silk tassel.

  • Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Carved and pierced ivory sticks with peacock and peahen feathers. Gilt metal bail. Silk tassel.

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