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Collection Item: Folding Fan
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Folding fan
- Object category
- Costume, female
- Object subcategory
- Accessories carried
- Description
- Fan with a double plain silk leaf edged with silver-coloured paper. The guards and sticks are of elaborately carved ivory depicting birds and flowers. When the sticks are opened out a shield shape is formed with two Oriental men carved within it. The sticks are also finely pierced. The rivet is of metal and mother-of-pearl. Small enough to fit into a reticule.
- Production date start
- 1800
- Production date end
- 1810
- Period
- Georgian
- Regency
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : TFN42
- Alternative number
- FN522
- 65/36
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 3.3381
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 10002209
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Ivory (Part)
- Silk (Leaf)
- Mother-of-pearl (Rivet)
- Metal (Rivet)
- Dimensions
- Whole length 200.0 mm
- Whole width 270.0 mm
Production
- Technique
- Carved
- Pierced
