Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: late 18th–early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Gilded parchment leaf painted with gouache. Obverse: classical scene illustrating the sacrifice of Iphigenia showing a sorrowing warrior at left; at center, a sacrificial altar to which the aged priest Colchas leads the weeping Iphigenia, while above in the clouds are Artemis with a deer; at right, a warrior and two female figures, watching the heavenly apparition. Narrow, gilded borders of abstract design interrupted by colored jewel motifs, with additional leaf motifs at ends. Reverse: two figures in a landscape with ruins. Ivory sticks carved à jour with self-contained designs of arrows or tracery combined with a fern motif. Reverse: not carved. Carved arrow-shaped guards, gorge pierced with tiny vine motif and backed with ivory. Reverse of right guard, carved and overlaid with gold foil. Guard proper, edge serrated, decorated with tapering panel of delicate tracery backed by gold foil. Ivory button at rivet.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Italy
label: possibly made in
content: France
label: possibly made in
content: England
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: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-161-199
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gilded parchment leaf painted with gouache, ivory sticks carved à jour, carved and pierced ivory guards overlaid with gold foil, ivory button at rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24.8 x 40.6 cm (9 3/4 x 16 in.)