Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Painted paper leaf. Obverse: mythological scene with Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and of the spring, at the center. She is presented with baskets of flowers, watered by a stream of running water personified by the figure at the right. Reverse: an enlarged image of the spring flowers received by Flora. Carved ivory sticks with mother-of-pearl inlays on the guards. Mother-of-pearl thumb guard and washer at the rivet.
place: label: possibly made in
content: England
label: possibly made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Robertson D. Ward, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. Helen Wright-Clark Dawson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1970-58-24
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Painted paper leaf, carved ivory sticks with mother-of-pearl inlays on the guards, mother-of-pearl thumb guard and washer at the rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 28.3 x 48.9 cm (11 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)