fan

Bernard B de Monvel

Summary

Advertising fan, wooden sticks and printed paper leaf. Fan advertises Parfum Safranor L.T. Piver Paris. Leaf (recto) - Shell or palmette shaped. Printed lithographically with a picture of a young woman in early Victorian costume seated in a garden, watched by two little girls in bonnets. A little boy is picking flowers from a bush. In background is white house with trellis and green painted doors and windows. Advertisment printed on right side. Leaf (verso) - Printed in sage green on a pale green ground with a repeating design of a ribbon lattice enclosing baskets of flowers. Central cartouche enclosing advertisement. Sticks - Twelve plain wooden sticks and two guards. Plain steel rivet.