Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Bour, (French, 1814–1881)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Gilded paper leaf with lithographs. Obverse: purple and copper-colored paper gilded showing three proscenium arches with curtains and pseudo-Renaissance motifs framing hand-colored lithographs of theatrical Spanish scenes. At left, a drinking party in fancy dress; at center, a large masked ball; at right, a queen and three attendants in a loge. Reverse: Three framed hand-colored lithographs of Spanish scenes in mountainous country. At left, two women at a well listening to minstrels; in center, groups of men at leisure with horses and riders; at right, men with a donkey. Gilded mother-of-pearl sticks, brilliantly painted on obverse and reverse with birds, flowers and scrolls. Reverse sticks decorated with small painted lithograph of Chenonceau. Oval mirror with gold frame set in guards. White paste jewel rivet head; gilt metal bail. Pale green silk tassel with gilt ornaments and beads.
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 Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-161-206
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gilded paper leaf with hand-colored lithographs framed by embossed, glazed paper, gilded and painted mother-of-pearl sticks with hand-colored lithograph, mirror with gold frame in guards, white paste jewel rivet head, gilt metal bail, silk tassel with gilt ornaments and glass beads
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 34.3 x 57.2 cm (13 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.) without tassel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 63.5 x 57.2 cm (25 x 22 1/2 in.) with tassel