Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: 1840s
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan with double leaf. Obverse: Printed (probably lithograph) and heavily hand-colored paper showing scene of Europa and the Bull surrounded by figures and putti. Heavily embellished gilded borders. Reverse: parchment painted with flowers. Pierced and incised mother-of-pearl sticks with applied metallic foil showing equestrian figures and scrolls. Gilt metal bail.
place: label: made in
content: possibly France
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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 Mabel Choate
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-69-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hand-colored printed paper and parchment leaf, pierced and incised mother-of-pearl sticks with applied metallic foil, gilt metal bail
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 29.2 x 49.5 cm (11 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)