Folding Fan
| Object Number: | 92-1-371 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | French |
| Provenience: | France |
| Period: | Louis XVI |
| Section: | Historic |
| Materials: | Ivory Silk Silver Gold Mother-of-Pearl |
| Technique: | Carved Gilded Painted |
| Credit Line: | Received from various sources, pre-1992 |
| Other Number: | 43 - Drexel Number 119 - Other Number |
Description
Bone sticks, fretted, carved and encrusted with silver and gold. Guards carved, encused with silver and gold and underpaid with pink mother-of-pearl. Leaf of silk painted in gouche. In the center is a vignette of a young Rococo couple seated in an arbor surrounded by a convention border of crimson, gold and green spangles with leaves painted in green, and flowers in red and gold. At right and left are two medallions framed in spangles, each containing an altar on which are two flaming hearts
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] 1906. Catalogue of the Lucy Wharton Drexel Collection of Fans in the Free Museum of Science and Art.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 21-22, #43 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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