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  Brisé Fan, late 19th–early 20th century

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

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  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.

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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  Brisé Fan, ca. 1875

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

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  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.

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  Brisé Fan, early 19th century

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  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…

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  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…