Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pleated fan with a gilded parchment leaf painted with watercolor. Obverse: figured in 18th-century costume in landscape. At left, a mother and child with hoop. Reverse: paper painted with scenes of youth and maiden seated in landscape. Carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil, obverse decorated with medallions and cartouche. Pin is set with a faceted light blue stones.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 18th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Medium
- Gilded parchment leaf painted with watercolor; carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil, pin set with a faceted stone
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Pleated fan
