Handscreen
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen with paper lear and turned wood handle. Obverse: scrolling cartouche with an interior scene showing a seated woman counting money while a standing woman passes an envelope to a messenger. Reverse: scrolling cartouche with rocaille and the poem "Femme Adroite."
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1927-17-4
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraved and hand-colored paper leaf, turned wood handle