THREE FANS
CIRCA 1880
The first fan with pink mother of pearl sticks the silk leaf painted with a fairy seated on a stalk of grass, with butterflies, in a white satin box stamped Bellini, Vigo Street, W.; another in the shape of a bull rush, with brown velvet rush sticks, the silk leaf painted with insects, snails and flowers; the third with wooden sticks inscribed Louise of Schleswig Holstein, Wiesbaden, 1889, the leaf inscribed with the names and dates of operas seen
The first: 14 in. (36 cm.) long
THREE FANS
CIRCA 1880
The first fan with pink mother of pearl sticks the silk leaf painted with a fairy seated on a stalk of grass, with butterflies, in a white satin box stamped Bellini, Vigo Street, W.; another in the shape of a bull rush, with brown velvet rush sticks, the silk leaf painted with insects, snails and flowers; the third with wooden sticks inscribed Louise of Schleswig Holstein, Wiesbaden, 1889, the leaf inscribed with the names and dates of operas seen
The first: 14 in. (36 cm.) long