Brisé fan
Object Details
- Description
- Brisé fan with ivory sticks carved à jour, decorated on obverse and reverse with birds, animals and foliage (phoenixes,mythical qilins, and peonies) in red, green, blue and gilt enamel. With a tortoiseshell thumbguard and a glass stone at the rivet, threaded with leather ribbon.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Miss Elizabeth d'Hauteville Kean
- 1710–20
- Accession Number
- 1923-24-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Brisé fan
- Medium
- Carved, pierced and painted ivory sticks with tortoise thumbguard and glass rivet, leather ribbon
- Dimensions
- H x W: 19 x 30.5 cm (7 1/2 x 12 in.)
- made in
- China
- used in
- Netherlands
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1923-24-3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46242a22f-80e8-4e0e-9835-0928fa09eca4
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