Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: 1778–1793
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Paper leaf with hand-colored engraving showing Minerva, with a leopard at her feet and a torch in one hand, presenting an olive branch and wreath to Louis XVI. At right are two putti, one of which is dressed as a Native Indian, holding aloft a banner saying "Vive la Paix" (long live peace). At left, a European and Indigenous woman hold a scroll saying "Etats Unis" (United States). The woman, symbolizing America, holds a trident and phrygian cap of liberty. Above them, a putto holds a trumpet with a banner "Paix et liberté des mers" (Peace and freedom of the seas). Far left, a cartouche explains the scene in French. Background is an all-over pattern of dots. Ivory sticks and wood guards.
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 the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-1-85
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Paper leaf with hand-colored engraving, ivory sticks, wood guards Background print appears to be block printed. The fan probably opriginally had metallic spangles that have deteriorated and fallen off, leaving remnants of tarnished metal in circular shapes. There is a glazing over the printed colors. Possibly gum arabic?
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.2 x 51 cm (11 1/2 x 20 1/16 in.)