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Folding Fancirca 1840

Not on view
Fully opened folding fan with painted paper leaf depicting three figures in a garden landscape, with pierced bone sticks and dark guard sticks decorated with gold motifs
Folded paper fan with painted landscape scene; two women in early 19th-century dress stand beneath trees in a green pastoral setting with a building in the distance; dark lacquered guard sticks decorated with painted roses and scrolling foliage; ivory or bone ribs.
Title
Folding Fan
Place Made
Italy or Spain
Date Made
circa 1840
Medium
Paper leaf, gilded mother-of-pearl sticks, iron/ silver metallic rivet
Dimensions
Length (Length of guard): 8 1/2 in. (21.59 cm) Spread: 16 in. (40.64 cm) 5 1/16 in. (12.86 cm) Length (Length of stick at shoulder): 3 1/2 in. (8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Evangeline D. Walker Bequest
Accession Number
M.78.108.20
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles