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Folding Fancirca 1720

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Folding fan displayed open, with cream-colored pierced ivory sticks, gold garland border decoration, and a painted central scene of four robed figures with an infant in a landscape

Unknown, Folding Fan, circa 1720, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs Harry D'Arrast, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Folding Fan
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1720
Medium
Vellum leaf, ivory sticks
Dimensions
Length (Overall length): 10 3/4 in. (27.31 cm) Length (Length of guard): 10 3/4 in. (27.31 cm) Depth of leaf: 6 3/8 in. (16.19 cm) Length (Length of stick at shoulder): 4 3/8 in. (11.11 cm) Length (Spread): 18 3/4 in. (47.63 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs Harry D'Arrast
Accession Number
M.76.8.2
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.

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