Handscreen
date: label: Date
content: 1751–1774
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handscreen. Hand-colored engraving on board. Obverse: a scrolling rocaille border, a female figure with mirror representing ‘perfect work’, a young and old angel, each displaying a page praising Louix XV for his decision to found a military school. Reverse: hand painted border motifs, appliquéd paper printed with French text concluding with: Le juste detest la discorde. Turned wood handle.
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: 1927-17-21
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Handscreen
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraved, hand-colored, and painted paper leaf, turned wood handle