Folding Hand Fan

Date1800s

Terms

Fans
Silver
Ivory
Paper

Dimensions22.84 cm (9 in.)

Markings"R.C.V.X.N405" at base of fan. The fan is accompanied by a typed note: "WEDDING FAN. 1820. Given by Mrs. Jesse Potter of Concord, May 1944 / Belonged to Mary Lowell of Concord, born Nov. 6, 1802 / married Benjamin Leach, Nov. 1, 1820, / Children: Henry Lowell Leach , b. 1821 / Mary Emerson Leach, b.1822 / His second marriageL to Mary Ellen Watkins, 1855 / Child: Ellen Frances Leach, who married Albert Barnard Root, / Children: Albert Barnard Root, Jr. / Ella Root. / Lucy Root (Mrs. Jesse Potter) / Mary Ellen Root."

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Jesse Potter

Object numberPER123A

DescriptionA folding fan composed of Pierced ivory sticks and a pleated, paper leaf. The ivory sticks are carved and pierced with a vegetal motif and accented with silver paint. The paper leaf is also elaborately embellished with a chromolithographic scene of ladies and gentlemen in 17th or 18th century clothing, seated around a card table in a pastoral landscape. The scene is surrounded by a vegetal border in silver paint. The verso of the leaf features a scene of five ladies in a landscape.

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