Details
A Cantonese eventail a dislocation or collapsible fan, the green satin leaf painted recto and verso with figures in a garden, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the sticks lacquered in black and gold -10.5in. (26cm.), circa 1880
Literature
This design was first patented by Thophile Heaulme-Fleury in 1879, his patent design No.303 is illustrated in L'Imagination au Service de L'Eventail, Maryse Volet, Vesenaz 1986, plate 127