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  • Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Celluloid stick with white, uncurled ostrich feathers.

  • Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

    Brisé fan. Tortoise shell sticks with black ostrich feathers, graded larger toward center; smaller tips are massed on outer guard.

  • Band (Greece), 17th century

    Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

  • Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

    Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

  • Purse (Greece), 1920s

    Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

  • Brisé Fan, ca. 1875

    Brisé fan. tortoise shell sticks connected with brown ribbon; tortoise shell bail. In box with tan paper tooled in gilt.

  • Brisé Fan, early 19th century

    Brisé fan. Bone sticks pierced with small spider-like figure repeated with variations in all-over design forming three circular medallions in center portion of field, with a band above and below.

  • Brisé Fan (China), ca. 1785

    Brisé fan with carved ivory sticks. A monogram in an oval medallion at the center is flanked by pagodas on either side. The ground is filled with an overall design…

  • Brisé Fan, ca. 1840

    Brisé fan. Black and gold lacquered wood sticks. Delicate, all-over decoration encloses a panel depicting a garden scene with figure groups. Ends of sticks decorated with different vignettes of figures…

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