French Louis XVI / Directoire Ivory, Gold & Silver Foil Jeweled Fan with Convex Mirror Guards France, circa 1790–1805 V Rare Napoleon bees nor serpentine crafted broad brass

nor serpentine crafted broad brass pencil-edging trim

The original centigrade thermometer is intact and mounted on a milk glass panel

Remarkable in so many ways

We've owned and sold several works similar to this by famed listed French Animalier sculptor

A large bird or long beaked grouse figure at the center with branches & foliage and depicted as if hung by a ribbon just after the hunt

French Louis XVI / Directoire Ivory, Gold & Silver Foil Jeweled Fan with Convex Mirror Guards France, circa 1790–1805 V Rare Napoleon bees nor serpentine crafted broad brassFew accessories capture the glittering elegance of late eighteenth century France more completely than a superbly crafted folding fan, and this remarkable example represents the finest level of Parisian luxury craftsmanship. Fashioned during the transition from the refined Louis XVI period into the early Directoire era, the fan is mounted on exquisitely carved ivory guards and sticks, lavishly ornamented with intricate pierced decoration overlaid in