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A fine fan signed Baston, the sticks signed Jules Vaillant, the canepin leaf painted with a flower seller and elegant couples outside a chateau, the verso with monogram H.de F with continental Marquis's coronet above, the mother of pearl sticks finely carved with Diana and Acteon and vignettes of putti hunting with temples in the distance, the reservers with caryatids and scrolling, signed Jules Vaillant on one guardstick and J.V. on both guardsticks, the upper guardstick also carved with monogram H.de F. with Marquis's coronet above - 12in. (29cm.), French, circa 1880 - in pale blue satin box with lesser coronet on lid, inside lid labelled S. Levy Eventailliste, 41 Avenue de l'Opera, Paris

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A fine fan signed Baston, the sticks signed Jules Vaillant, the canepin leaf painted with a flower seller and elegant couples outside a chateau, the verso with monogram H.de F with continental Marquis's coronet above, the mother of pearl sticks finely carved with Diana and Acteon and vignettes of putti hunting with temples in the distance, the reservers with caryatids and scrolling, signed Jules Vaillant on one guardstick and J.V. on both guardsticks, the upper guardstick also carved with monogram H.de F. with Marquis's coronet above - 12in. (29cm.), French, circa 1880 - in pale blue satin box with lesser coronet on lid, inside lid labelled S. Levy Eventailliste, 41 Avenue de l'Opera, Paris
See Colour Plate on back cover

拍品專文

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 et palacio de Oriente, Reales Sitos , VI, No. 19 Spring 1969, pp.40.41
Jules Vaillant won a gold medal at L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 for the mother of pearl and ivory sticks he carved for Rodien. He began carving those sticks in 1891. This fan is signed in the same manner, J.V. on each guardstick as well as Jules Vaillant in full on one guardstick, See L'Eventail, Miroir de la Belle Epoque, Paris, 1985, pp. 27, 25, 39 no.9, 47 paragraph 4.