Cockade fan
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1850
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cockade fan with a pierced bone handle and slender sticks supporting twenty-four silk ovals, each with sixteen scallops, all edges rolled and whipped. Each leaf is decorated at three points with brocaded colored silk flowers, and attached to the guards by a slender stick on back. The two end ovals adhere to guards that have portions sliding in groove, forming handle. Inner ends of sticks pivot on a metal rivet with mother-of-[earl washer.
place: label: possibly made in
content: USA
label: possibly made in
content: 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: Gift of Lea S. Luquer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1958-148-2
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Cockade fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brocaded silk leaves, pierced bone handle and sticks, metal rivet with mother-of-pearl washer
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (open): 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)