Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cockade fan with a pierced bone handle and slender sticks supporting twenty-four silk ovals, each with sixteen scallops, all edges rolled and whipped. Each leaf is decorated at three points with brocaded colored silk flowers, and attached to the guards by a slender stick on back. The two end ovals adhere to guards that have portions sliding in groove, forming handle. Inner ends of sticks pivot on a metal rivet with mother-of-[earl washer.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lea S. Luquer
- Medium
- Brocaded silk leaves, pierced bone handle and sticks, metal rivet with mother-of-pearl washer
- Dimensions
- H x diam. (open): 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Cockade fan
