Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pleated fan with double leaf. Obverse: a narrow printed and hand-colored paper leaf showing a pastoral scene. Reverse: a painted parchment leaf showing a coastal scene. Elaborately pierced and gilded mother-of-pearl sticks. Rivet set with clear faceted stone and gilt metal bail. Tassel of silk and metal threads.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Robertson D. Ward, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. Helen Wright-Clark Dawson
- Medium
- Printed and hand-colored paper leaf, painted parchment leaf, pierced and gilded mother-of-pearl sticks, rivet set with faceted stone, gilt metal bail, tassel of silk and metal threads
- Dimensions
- H x W (open, without tassel): 29.8 x 50.8 cm (11 3/4 x 20 in.)
- H x W (tassel): 33.7 x 2.5 cm (13 1/4 x 1 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Pleated fan
