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Folding Fancirca 1860

Not on view
Fully opened folding fan with ivory or bone sticks carved in openwork fleur-de-lis patterns, and a paper leaf painted with a group of elegantly dressed eighteenth-century figures in a garden, with gold scrollwork borders
Folding fan with pierced and gilt mother-of-pearl sticks featuring scrolling foliage cutwork; painted paper leaf depicting a group of classical figures in robes reclining and gesturing among clouds, with gold-painted borders along the edges.
Title
Folding Fan
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1860
Medium
Paper leaf, mother-of-pearl sticks and guards
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Walter Jarvis Barlow
Accession Number
40.14.5
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles