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Pleated fan

1820–30

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Pleated folding fan with hand-colored etching and stipple engraved paper leaf with wood sticks and guards inlaid with steel discs, mother-of-pearl, steel discs, and stone ornaments. Leaf obverse shows a king and queen in Tudor dress seated on side-by-side thrones in front of a Gothic-style balustrade, with a courtier looking on. Reverse shows a reclining gentleman attended by two women, one pouring him wine and the other playing guitar, beside a river with palm trees.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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