Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: 1800–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Leaf of painted paper backed with parchment. Obverse: an allegorical scene depicting a hero returning from war. Reverse: foliage sprays in gilt. Sticks of carved and pierced ivory, guards decorated with mother-of-pearl, silver, and metallic spangles. Rivet is set with an opaque white stone.
place: label: made in
content: England or 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 Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-161-240
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Paper leaf backed with parchment, gilded and painted with watercolour, carved and pierced ivory sticks with silver and gold spangles, mother-of-pearl plaque at rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 33.6 x 17.8cm (13 1/4 x 7 in.)