Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: 1820–30
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated folding fan with hand-colored etching and stipple engraved paper leaf with wood sticks and guards inlaid with steel discs, mother-of-pearl, steel discs, and stone ornaments. Leaf obverse shows a king and queen in Tudor dress seated on side-by-side thrones in front of a Gothic-style balustrade, with a courtier looking on. Reverse shows a reclining gentleman attended by two women, one pouring him wine and the other playing guitar, beside a river with palm trees.
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. Cadwalader Jones
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-14-2
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Paper leaf with hand-colored etching and stipple engraving; carved wood sticks inlaid with steel discs, guards inlaid with mother-of-pearl, steel discs, and stones; mother-of-pearl washer at the rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 21.6 x 39.4 cm (8 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)