Illustrations in Line
| PAGE | |
| Feather-fan, Nimroud | ix |
| Peacock-feather Fan | xii |
| Head-piece | xiii |
| Initial—Boy with Fan | 1 |
| Tea-fan | 9 |
| Initial—Vulture with Emblem of Protection | 10 |
| Fire-fan, Colombia | 12 |
| Portuguese ‘Abano’ | 12 |
| Plaited Hand-fan, Egyptian | 13 |
| Hand-fan, Egyptian | 13 |
| Hand-fan, Egyptian | 14 |
| Fly-whisk, Egyptian | 14 |
| Ceremonial Fans—from Rosellini | 15 |
| Cere”monial F”ns | 16 |
| Investiture of the Office of Fan-bearer | 17 |
| Umbrella or Canopy of Chariot of Rameses III. | 19 |
| Initial—Assyrian Fly-whisk | 20 |
| Assyrian and Persian Fly-whisks | 21 |
| Covers of Fly-whisks | 21 |
| Tail-piece—from an Assyrian relief | 26 |
| Initial—Greek Girl with Fan | 27 |
| Greek Fans | 28 |
| Greek Girl with Fan | 30 |
| Tail-piece—Girl with Fan | 32 |
| Initial—from printed Cotton Hanging, India | 33 |
| Cingalese Sēsata | 37 |
| Fly-whisk—from an illumination | 38 |
| Fly-”whisk- from a painting on talc, Madras | 38 |
| Emblem of Royalty | 39 |
| Royal Standards | 40 |
| Hand-fan | 41 |
| Plaited-Grass Fan | 41 |
| Flag-fan | 41 |
| Talapat Fan and Pankhás | 42 |
| Burmese Fan of Gold | 43 |
| Portion of Embroidered Muslin (Chamba, Nineteenth Century) | 44 |
| Fly-whisk used by Jains | 45 |
| Circular Fan, ‘Like the Moon’ | 46 |
| Fan of Hsi Wang Mu (Japanese Painting, British Museum) | 47 |
| Fan of Ming Dynasty (Painting, British Museum) | 47 |
| White Plumed Fan of Hsi Wang Mu | 48 |
| Two Pear-shaped Screens | 49 |
| Initial—Japanese | 60 |
| Feather-fan, Japanese Painting | 61 |
| Hand-screen,Japa”nese P”nting | 61 |
| Fly-whisk, Upper Nile | 77 |
| Plaited Fans, South Pacific Islands | 79 |
| Plaited Fans, Hawaiian | 80 |
| Various Fans, Samoa | 81 |
| Variou”s FansBritish Guiana | 81 |
| Variou”s FansEcuador and Peru | 81 |
| Variou”s FansSouth-Eastern Pacific | 81 |
| Flag-fan, West Africa | 83 |
| Fly-whisk, Andaman Islands | 85 |
| Fly-”whiskTahiti | 85 |
| Fly-”whiskMatabele | 86 |
| Fly-”whiskEast African | 86 |
| Angel with Flabellum | 87 |
| Processional Flabellum | 88 |
| Coptic Flabellum | 89 |
| Flabellum, from Greek Psalter | 93 |
| Flab”ellumfrom Goar | 94 |
| Flab”ellumMonza | 96 |
| Flag-fan, from Vatican (a glass vase) | 98 |
| Banner-fan, from ivory diptich | 99 |
| Ghost-fan, Malay Archipelago | 106 |
| Fan of Ferrara, or Duck’s-foot | 107 |
| Fragments of Fan from Château de Pierre | 109 |
| Small Rigid Fans, 1590 | 109 |
| Feather-fan, Milan | 110 |
| Diagram of parts of Folding-fan | 116 |
| Rigid Screen of Bologna, 1590 | 127 |
| Fan of Rice-straw, Fifteenth Century | 138 |
| Dimensions of Fans, 1550-1780 | 148 |
| Japanese Lady’s Court-fan | 175 |
| Long-handled Feather-fan | 176 |
| Ostrich-feather Folding-fan, Amsterdam | 196 |
| Flag-fan, Titian | 204 |
| Ivory Fan, Madras, Nineteenth Century | 231 |
| Plaited Fan | 232 |
| Hide-fan, from Benin | 271 |
| Queen Kapiolani’s Fan | 272 |
| From a Chinese Screen, Victoria and Albert Museum | 299 |
A Concert. Dutch, 1720-30, given by the Duke of Cobury to Princess Victoria (afterwards Queen) in 1836, from the collection of Fans at Gotha. H.R.H. Princess Louise,
Duchess of Argyll.