snake-like handle is a drafting brush
but also a terrific addition to any collection of fine baskets
including fairly recently in "Shifting Ecologies" (2014) curated by Marianne Van Lent at The Painting Center
with a spatter of orange paint on the sides for extra flourish
it's a 2 ounce graduated jigger
Pretty Hand-painted Folding Hand Fan of Miss Fanny Allen, Gifted in 1872 antique wood box snake-like handle is a draftingI found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection, to whom this hand painted one, Japanese I believe, was gifted in 1872 (handwritten in ink along the far left edge.) I really like its elegant simplicity, with one gold square painted with a bird and flower, and one silver with deep blue lilies and green stalks. The reverse is plain, the sticks ribs are bamboo, and it holds