Rare Victorian Green Silk Parasol Cockade Fan
€150.00
Rare novelty fan made of a foldable wooden handle and green silk leaf. Patented design of 1858. The fan can be used as a cockade fan or parasol, as desired, and folds neatly so it could be stored in one’s skirt pocket.
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Description
Origin: France
Date: ca. 1858
In 1858, a patent for a design for a “fan forming a screen and parasol” was filed in Paris by Eugène Perrenoud (Volet 1986, 82 (no 85); see also Fendel 2006, 25ff). This is such a fan patented by Perrenoud. The drawings filed with the patent also show the striped design in the silk, cleverly achieved by creasing the material. This is patent quite an early example of this fan type and pre-dates the more widely known Meyer patent.
The fan is made of a dark brown (probably mahogany) wooden sticks inlaid with mother of pearl dots and a pleated, green coloured silk leaf/cover. The fan can has a folding handle (locked in place by a brass lever) and a tilting mechanism that allows it to be used either as a large cockade fan or as a parasol, as required. The centre has a mirror attached on one side and a silk covered button on the other side. The matching green silk tassel is original. Sadly, the mother of pearl loop at the lower end of the handle is lost. The fan folds neatly, so it could be carried in one’s skirt pocket.
Height: 17.75″ (45 cm) Width: 11.5″ (29 cm) Length (folded): 6.5″(16.5 cm)
Condition: Very good, working condition with discreet repairs to the silk beside either wooden “guardstick”. As mentioned above, the finger loop at the end of the handle is missing.
Literature:
Fendel, C. 2006. Novelty Hand Fans. Hand Fan Productions.
Volet, M. 1986. L’imagination au service de l’éventail : les brevets déposés en France au 19ème siècle. – Imagination at the service of the fan. Patents registered in France in the 19th century. Imagination and its contribution to fans. Editions Maryse Volet. Vesenaz
