Antique French Hand Painted Vernis Martin 16cm Brisé Hand Fan, Romantic Era c.1700s Manner, c.1895-1905. travel case both in wonderful condition and

both in wonderful condition and full of decorative potential

inkwells (2 remains)

The back base of the porcelain figural centerpiece is signed "Renard" into the porcelain and bears the blue underglaze Volkstedt mark

which I really do need to do

Catholic vestment in cardinal crimson or blood/claret red

Antique French Hand Painted Vernis Martin 16cm Brisé Hand Fan, Romantic Era c.1700s Manner, c.1895-1905. travel case both in wonderful condition andElegant 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