Director's Choice Gallery
Director’s Choice, an exhibition featuring some of The Fan Museum’s most spectacular fans, is on display until October 4, 2009.
This exquisite, eclectic Summer exhibition evoking languid evenings of another less stressed era, when women carried fans and gently cooled themselves, when you could “tell a duchess from a countess by the way she carried her fan” is not to be missed.
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A Gift of Love (Cat No 51).
Mother-of-pearl fan, backed with goldfish, the sticks carved with fruit and flowers enhanced with gold leaf. Guards encased in gold and inset with jewels. Gold loop shaped to form a double love knot. Russian control marks on outer edge, also engraved with the date 4 juin 1875. Double paper leaf painted on both sides, on the obverse with a ballroom scene and signed AMAN CY and along the guard on the reverse, ALEXANDRE. Reverse painted with a scene after WATTEAU. Rivet set with ruby on one side and sapphire the other. Franco-Russian, c. 1870 HA Collection 1585 1 of 19