Lot Essay
A fan presented to the Queen-Regent Christina of Spain when she opened the Barcelona Exhibition in 1888 has sticks signed "Jules Vaillant sculpteur a Andeville, Oise", Junquera (P.): Una Coleccion de Abanicos en el Palacio de Oriente, Reales Sitos, VI, No.19, Spring, 1969 pp.40.41
Jules Vaillant, who had already exhibited in the 1855 exhibition, won a bronze medal at L'Exposition Universelle de 1869 and a gold one at that of 1900 for the mother of pearl and ivory sticks he carved for Rodien which he began carving in 1891. That fan,Les Oceanides was also exhibited in L'Eventail Miroir de la Belle Epoque, cat. No. 16, and is in the Musee Carnavalet (no.66.44.14.)
Another fan, circa 1880, with sticks signed Jules Vaillant was sold at Christie's South Kensington, lot 82, 2 December 1997
Jules Vaillant, who had already exhibited in the 1855 exhibition, won a bronze medal at L'Exposition Universelle de 1869 and a gold one at that of 1900 for the mother of pearl and ivory sticks he carved for Rodien which he began carving in 1891. That fan,Les Oceanides was also exhibited in L'Eventail Miroir de la Belle Epoque, cat. No. 16, and is in the Musee Carnavalet (no.66.44.14.)
Another fan, circa 1880, with sticks signed Jules Vaillant was sold at Christie's South Kensington, lot 82, 2 December 1997