Pleated fan
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740
name: label: After
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in watercolor. Obverse: scene of figures in a landscape after “L'Assemblée Galante” of Jean-Antoine Watteau. Reverse: Chinoiserie scene with a man and woman in a landscape with a boat and a bare tree. Guard and sticks of pierced and carved mother-of-pearl with gold foil. Gorge covered with a diaper pattern of applied straw, showing an elaborately carved and pierced rocaille framework enclosing figures.
place: label: possibly made in
content: England
label: possibly made in
content: Netherlands
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1952-161-223
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pleated fan
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Parchment leaf painted in watercolor, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil and applied straw decoration
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 26.7 x 50.2 cm (10 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)