Folding Fan
92-1-371
From: France
Curatorial Section: Historic
| Object Number | 92-1-371 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | French |
| Provenience | France |
| Period | 18th Century | Louis XVI |
| Date Made | 1754-1793 CE |
| Section | Historic |
| Materials | Ivory | Silk | Silver | Gold | Mother-of-Pearl |
| Technique | Carved | Gilded | Painted |
| 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 |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1992 |
| Other Number | 43 - Drexel Number | 119 - Other Number |
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