On View
Not on viewFolding Hand Fan
DateEarly 1900s
Terms
- Fans
- Steel
- Paper
- Wood
- Paint
- Europe
- United States
Dimensions17.13 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Joanna Ballou Savery (1995)
Object number1995.20.192
DescriptionA folding fan with 18 wooden sticks and a pleated paper leaf. The wooden sticks are natural stained and varnished wood with painted gilt decoration on the end guards. The paper leaf is printed with a chromolithograph illustration of children in a garden, surrounded by a floral border. The other side of the paper features a similar scene, in gilt only.
1995.20.1-.197: fan collection.
1995.20.1-.197: fan collection.
Collections
- Historic Clothing
