Details
A Novelty fan, with black lace leaf embroidered with spangles, mounted over white gauze, blonde sticks, the guardsticks each signed Mortelmans, with shaped scent bottle attached disguised as a tassle - 11in. (28cm.), late 19th century
Literature
The scent bottle is part of a design patented by Ernest Kees, see Maryse Volet, L'Immagination au Service de L'Eventail, Vesenaz, 11986