1920's Restaurant Advertising: Three Printed Paper Fans Advertising The Restaurant...

1920's Restaurant Advertising: Three Printed Paper Fans Advertising The Restaurant Frascati, London, the first a seldom seen example showing two ladies relaxing in a rose arbour, wearing extravagant long, draped and fashionable dresses, one with a print very much of the period, drinking champagne. Mounted on simple dark wood sticks, the verso printed with a spray of roses in pale pink on cream, overall height 9.75 inches or 24.5cm; a second Frascati fan of fontange form, printed and patented by Chambrelent, Paris, this time showing two ladies by the riverbank, a swan family approaching, the ladies picking orange fruit from a tree, wearing clothing in cream and orange and accessorised by an orange parasol. Simple dark wood monture, overall height 10.75 inches or 24.5cm. A Third Fan fan in fontange form advertises on the verso The Criterion Restaurant Piccadilly, Whitehall 6611. W.I. (London), marked as "Made in France". The recto shows a young lady in a strapless gown with voluminous skirts, holding an open folding fan. Overall height 9.75 inches or 25cm (3)

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