item details
NameFolding fan
ProductionUnknown; circa 1815; France
Classificationfans, works on paper
Materials Summarydouble paper leaf, etched and painted in watercolour and gouache, and gilded. Bone sticks, pierced and decorated with cut steel pique work; guards with applied steel plaques. Mother-of-pearl thumbguard, metal rosette washer at brass rivet.
Registration Number1938-0003-9
Credit lineGift of Mr and Mrs Ernest Makower, 1938