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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 11051531, member: 2844&quot;]Is that the fan or the frame? If it is the fan, it is later than the costume.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a sweet fan. It is a late 19th century fan, 1890(s). A bone deck and handpainted gauze leaf with lace details and hand knotted Algerian knot tassel.</p><p>Costumes on fans aren&#039;t always something to go by, fans also followed historic revival fashions, but in this case it could be an indication, as Debora said. If it is a huge fan, it is 1890s, so slightly later than the costume. Maybe the painter was a bit old-fashioned.</p><p>Other indications of a relatively late fan are the metal loop at the bottom, the thin textile and the lace &#039;floating&#039; on the gauze.</p><p>The leaf has to create an impression of delicate butterfly wings, not of the heavy and functional fan of a few decades earlier. It would have been carried to dances and similar functions by a young lady of the middle class.</p><p>My grandmother had a similar fan, which I have now. It is smaller though, and dates to ca 1910.</p><p><br /></p><p>The frame was intended for a grander fan. Both in size and in value. Fan frames are not easy to come by, and the frame is currently more valuable than the fan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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