Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: 1760–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Painted parchment leaf. Obverse: Romantic groups and still life in medallions bordered with gold; blue background scattered with gold leaves and pink flowering branches. Reverse: Chinoiserie landscape. Carved, pierced, painted, and gessoed ivory sticks showing figures and flowers in scrolled cartouches and fretwork; colored foil behind the guards. Glass stone at the rivet.
place: label: made in
content: England
label: made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-46-2
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Painted parchment leaf; carved, pierced, painted, and gessoed ivory sticks with colored foil behind the guards, glass stone at the rivet
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 26.7 x 50.8 cm (10 1/2 x 20 in.)