Pleated fan
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pleated fan with painted parchment leaf. Obverse: two side rectangular panels; one with a landscape and cows; the other, a landscape with fisherman. The central medallion depicting a woman as the allegory of color. The background in the French Directoire style with pastel colors. Reverse: minute floral decoration along borders. Ivory sticks: carved à jour, gilded and painted. Glass stone at the rivet.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1795–1805
- Accession Number
- 1931-65-167
- After
- Angelica Kauffmann, (Swiss, 1741–1807)
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Pleated fan
- Medium
- Painted parchment leaf, painted and gilded ivory sticks carved à jour, glass stone
- Dimensions
- H x W (open): 25.4 x 45.7 cm (10 x 18 in.)
- possibly made in
- England
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-65-167
