 Pieces of this fan, dating from the eighth century, are in the Musée Cluny at Paris, and in the Collection Carrand.Very ornate and impractical flabella were made in gold and jewels in the Romanesque period; the example in the Metropolitan Museum is especially intricate.Examples of the Eastern Christian style is also found in the Slavic "ripidion" of the thirteenth century, preserved at Moscow, and in the one shown in the Megaspileon monastery in Greece.