Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: late 18th–mid- 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Parchment leaf backed with paper. Obverse painted in gouache and gold: a landscape with figure groups in front of a building with large fountain. Reverse: landscape with single figure. Pierced and carved ivory sticks with colored and gilded flowers and birds. Tortoise shell at rivet.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Germany
label: made in
content: possibly France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-17-153
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gouache-painted and gilded parchment leaf backed with paper, pierced, carved, painted and gilded ivory sticks, tortoise shell rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 28.6 x 47 cm (11 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)