History of the Fan

by G. Woolliscroft Rhead

[61] In the Musée Guimet, Paris, is a tea-service, fine in execution, signed ‘Kawamoto Hansouke,’ an artist of the province of Owari, the saucers being shaped like fans. In the same collection is a large plate, fourteen inches in its longest dimension, shaped like a folding-fan.

[62] Francis Parkman, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West.

[63] Miss Kingsley refers to their use at Egaja, ‘for the purpose of battling with the evening cloud of sand-flies.’

[64] In the liturgy of St. Chrysostom, after the Benedictus—‘Supra sancta ventilet reverenter flabello. Si desit flabellum, velo idem praestat.’ (Divina Missa S. Joan. Chrysostomi, Goar. Rituale Graecorum. p. 76.)

[65] Smith, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities.

[66] ‘A.D. 1214, Ornamenta Ecclesie Sarum, inventa in Thesauraria. ij. flabella de serico et pergameno.’

[67] Dugdale, History of St. Paul’s.

[68] ‘Manubrium flabelli argentum deauratum, ex dono Joh. Newton, thesaurarii, cum ymagine Episcopi in fine enamelyd, pond. v. unc.’

[69] Registrum Roff. p. 554.

[70] Journal of the Archæological Association, vol. xxvi.