Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan with double leaf. Obverse: parchment leaf painted with classical scene of figures in a garden with architecture and angels. Reverse: silk leaf painted with border design. Carved, pierced and painted ivory sticks backed with mother-of-pearl showing armor and vases. Rivet set with clear faceted stone. Gilt metal bail in shape of bellflower swag.
place: label: made in
content: probably 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 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: 1970-58-6
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Painted parchment and silk leaf; carved, pierced and painted ivory sticks backed with mother-of-pearl, rivet set with faceted stone, cast gilt metal bail
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 28.6 x 47 cm (11 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)