Les Deux Avares (The Two Misers)
date: label: Date
content: 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen with paper leaf and turned wood handle. Obverse: engraved and hand-colored medallion shows a woman pouring a man a drink outside a building, at night. Reverse: dialogue from the opera "Les Deux Avares (The Two Misers)" by André Grétry.
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: 1927-17-8
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Object Name
content: Handscreen
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraved hand-colored and painted paper leaf, turned wood handle