Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Printed, hand-colored and gilded paper leaf. Obverse: a young man and woman receive blessings from a seated man and woman; groups of figures watch from the left, right and backdrop. Reverse: a pastoral scene. Pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil. Gilded metal plaque, mirrors and faceted glass stones on guards. Gilt metal bail and silk tassel with metal threads.
place: label: made in
content: possibly 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 Mrs. Robertson D. Ward, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. Helen Wright-Clark Dawson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1970-58-12
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Printed, hand-colored and gilded paper leaf, pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil, gilded metal plaque, mirrors and faceted glass stones on guards, gilt metal bail, silk tassel with metal threads
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open, without tassel): 31.1 x 51.4 cm (12 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (tassel): 33 x 3.2 cm (13 x 1 1/4 in.)