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Historical Archive: Fans, Liturgical flabella Representations follow surviving objects. flabellum fr Wadi Natrun, copper alloy/wood, Egypt, dated 1202, Louvre OA 7947/E 11294 flabellum fr Wadi Natrun, Louvre OA 7947: Virgin and Child flabellum, J. Fuchs 1948, wood/silver/peacock feathers, DMP G.3.111 flabellum, J. Fuchs 1948, top fan (left): woman spinning from Susa, bitumen, 8th-mid 6th c. BCE, Louvre Sb 2834 Christ with winnowing fan, copper gilt, Cologne 1150-60, Schn G578 Khutyn epitaphios, taffeta with gold/silver/silk embroidery, mid 15th c., workshop of Archbishop Euthymius/Euphemius II (1429–1459), Novgorod AM Khutyn epitaphios: angels with flabella and candlestick Khutyn epitaphios: Mary, angels fan: ex-voto of 3-year-old from chapel of Notre-Dame d’Assistance, oil on canvas, dated 1648, Lille Hospice Comtesse D 62.1