Handscreen
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen with hand-painted paper leaf and turned wood handle. Obverse: interior scene showing man seated before fire receiving game and food offerings from visitors; in the foreground, a woman releases birds from a cage. Reverse: paper painted with flowers, with three applied engravings showing French text on paper.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1927-17-6
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Painted paper leaf, turned wood handle