A WONDERFUL FAN.
There was lately exhibited, at a celebrated fanmaker's in Paris, the fan made for the Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia. It is made of pure cream-vellum, and it required weeks to choose the sheet from among thousands of specimens. The painting is a marvel of delicacy in its design and softness in coloring, the Pompadour subject being, as seen through a clouded mist, of the palest tints of aurora. This masterpiece is supported in a large mount of mother-of-pearl, carved and worked open to the transparency of lace, one of the side branches being enriched by long initials formed by a combination of many-colored precious stones, and the other bearing the arms of Russia designed in numberless small but perfect diamonds.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7440, 10 August 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)
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124A WONDERFUL FAN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7440, 10 August 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)
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