Collection Item: Cockade Fan
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Cockade fan
- Object category
- Costume, female
- Object subcategory
- Accessories carried
- Creators
- Giroux, A. & Cie. (Manufacturer)
- Description
- Cockade fan with a pink, shovel-shaped silk leaf painted with gold flowers and edged with white feathers. The ivory guards, which also form the handles when open, are inlaid with gold leaf. The handles are held closed by a gold ring. The top of the fan, which is the centre when open, is protected by a decorative pinchbeck cap. The box is cardboard, the outside decorated with Chinoiserie and held closed by two pieces of ivory.
- Production date start
- 1800
- Production date end
- 1850
- Period
- Georgian
- Regency
- William IV
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : TFN217.1-2
- Alternative number
- FN139
- 521.46
- Number of objects
- 2
- Classification code
- 3.3381
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 10002386
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Ivory (Part)
- Silk (Leaf)
- Pinchbeck (Cap)
- Cardboard (Box)
- Ivory (Fasteners)
- Dimensions
- Whole length 475.0 mm
- Whole width 335.0 mm
- Box length 310.0 mm
Production
- Creators
- Giroux, A. & Cie. (Manufacturer)
- Location
- Paris
