Handscreen
date: label: Date
content: late 18th–early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen with a hand painted paper leaf. Obverse: a flowering bush. Reverse: a flowering bush with two applied pieces of printed paper.
label: Description
content: (left) Je voudrois vous faire comprendre / Ce que l’amour a de plus tendre. / Ingrate, je n’aime que toi, / At ton ame me manque de foi. / Je ne faurois aimer que vous, / Quique les autres en foient jaloux
label: Description
content: (right) Celui qui nous demande la secret, en nous decouvrant le sien sans necessite, nous donne en meme tems / l’exemple de ce qu’il nous desend. / A PARIS / Chez Legros Marchand de Papiers rue / du petite-Pont.
label: Description
content: Turned wood handle.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1925-1-54
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Painted paper leaf, turned wood handle