Pleated fan
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pleated fan. Parchment leaf backed with paper. Obverse painted in gouache and gold: a landscape with figure groups in front of a building with large fountain. Reverse: landscape with single figure. Pierced and carved ivory sticks with colored and gilded flowers and birds. Tortoise shell at rivet.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan
- late 18th–mid- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1953-17-153
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Pleated fan
- Medium
- Gouache-painted and gilded parchment leaf backed with paper, pierced, carved, painted and gilded ivory sticks, tortoise shell rivet
- Dimensions
- H x W: 28.6 x 47 cm (11 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
- made in
- possibly Germany
- possibly France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1953-17-153
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq40b963be5-c038-4b1b-9414-70947c2f00e0
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