Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Brisé fan. Ivory sticks painted to resemble vernis martin. Obverse: central scene of balloon ascent with cartouches enclosing four smaller scenes of balloon in flight and two portraits. Reverse: balloon over landscape. Rivet is set with a clear faceted stone. Tortoise shell on guards.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Robertson D. Ward, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. Helen Wright-Clark Dawson
- Medium
- Painted ivory sticks, silk ribbon, tortoise shell on guards, rivet set with a stone
- Dimensions
- H x W (open): 19.1 x 34 cm (7 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Brisé fan
