Pleated fan and case
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Narrow parchment leaf with lithograph hand-colored in gouache. Obverse: heroic scene of patriarch (possibly Solomon) surrounded by women. Reverse: scenes of lovers in landscape in style of Louis XIV. Mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, carved à jour with floral and lattice designs. Scene of two women and a man on the sticks. Pin is set with a brilliant. Japanese box of lacquered wood inlaid with metal, lined with silk. Top set with metal cartouche and border, with metal lock and hinges. Red moire silk and paper lining.
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: Gift of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-34-6-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan and case
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Parchment leaf with lithograph hand-colored in gouache, mother-of-pearl sticks carved à jour, brilliant set in pin, lacquered wood case inlaid with metal, lined with silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a, open): 29.2 x 51.4 cm (11 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.)