Fire screen
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large, hand-held fire screen on a wooden stick. The obverse has a scene of a older man at a desk approached by a younger man, with two servants in attendance, entitled "Le fils prodigue fait rendre compte a son Pere de son legitime" (The Prodigal son makes claim to his father for his legitimacy). On the reverse is a scene of a woman seated at a writing desk, with music and lyrics for two songs, "Le Berger amoureux" and "La Bergere contente" (The Shepherd in Love and The Happy Shepherdess).
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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1924-15-212
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Fire screen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Label: hand-colored, engraved paper leaf; wooden stick
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 73.7 x 45.1 cm (29 in. x 17 3/4 in.)