Handscreen
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen with engraved and hand-colored design. Obverse: an oval medallion with three couples talking in front of a garden gate with a fountain behind, surrounded by hand-painted motifs of flowers, musical instruments, etc. Reverse: short dialogues from the play "Julia," numbered sequentially.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1921-6-24-b
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraved, hand-colored and painted paper leaf, turned wood handle
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 45 x 24.7 cm (17 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)