Artist: Frédéric Boucheron
Date: 1880
Museum: The Fan Museum (Greenwich, United Kingdom)
Technique: Shell
Fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards enhanced with diamonds, which form a monogram in the centre. The leaf bears a floral design of swags and oval vignettes in Chantilly de Bayeux lace (a type of handmade bobbin lace believed to have originated in France during the Seventeenth Century). Boucheron, Frédéric (French, active from 1858) Founder of the renowned Boucheron jewellers, located at the Palais-Royal during the Second French Empire. In 1893, Boucheron established a shop in St. Petersburg and later expanded to London and other international cities.
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