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 paper leaf. The front is printed with a rural scene of hay gathering by a river. The picture is surrounded by a border of birds and flowers. The reverse is plain white. The sticks and guards are ivory decorated with red birds and flowers surrounded by a gold and red border. The rivet is brass with a mother-of-pearl washer and thumb guard.
- Production date start
- 1785
- Production date end
- 1795
- Period
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : TFN492
- Alternative number
- FN271
- 958/50
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 3.3381
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 10002760
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Ivory (Part)
- Paper (Leaf)
- Mother-of-pearl (Part)
- Brass (Rivet)
- Dimensions
- Whole length 250.0 mm
- Whole width 335.0 mm
