Antique French Hand Painted Vernis Martin 16cm Brisé Hand Fan, Romantic Era c.1700s Manner, c.1895-1905. travel case the anchor and steering pole

the anchor and steering pole and fin are all in place

inkwells (2 remains)

mounted on your own cabinetry

A few tiny nicks to the blades but all have been recently wheel polished and have a lustrous shine

the tips of the animals' snouts and brim of the herder's hadare most evident

Antique French Hand Painted Vernis Martin 16cm Brisé Hand Fan, Romantic Era c.1700s Manner, c.1895-1905. travel case the anchor and steering poleElegant in a decorative manner of the 1700s, Marie Antoinette's favorite if historians are to be believed, the layered oil painting and varnish first created by the Brothers Martin. The process is simply referred to ever afterward as "Vernis Martin". You can see why M A loved it. Sumptuous, all over decorative paintings on both sides, usually in the French Romanticist manner of artists like Boucher, Fragonard outdoor love and courtship scenes. The