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  • Pleated Fan, 1820–1830

    Double paper leaf with gilded hand-colored etching.Obverse: scene of three women with a lyre. Possibly an operatic scene. Reverse: plain paper with small gold ornamentation. Carved bone sticks with metallic…

  • Pleated Fan, 19th century

    Folding fan with a leaf of white bobbin lace with swirling floral patterns. Sticks of plain mother-of-pearl, with a wide white silk ribbon.

  • Square, Combat de Coqs (Cock Fight), 1947

    Printed square scarf with center blue ground with white roosters detailed in black linework. White border with loose linework around center square with pink line to frame and another white…

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

    Blue square with flat border. Relief design of a vine with four leaves forming a circle, on a textured ground.

  • Pleated Fan, late 19th century

    Pleated fan. Metallic net leaf backed with black chiffon. Obverse: decorated with bands and diamonds of black sequins and paillettes sewn on taffeta as well as metal net. Carved sandalwood…

  • Pleated Fan (France), mid-19th century

    Pleated fan. Gilded paper leaf with hand-colored lithograph. Obverse: rustic fisherpeople against a landscape with water, and scrolling gold borders. Sticks are sandalwood with pierced designs and inlaid steel discs.…

  • Pleated Fan, ca. 1875

    Pleated fan with needle lace leaf showing royal procession, lined with net. Ivory sticks. Guards have raised bumps in imitation of bamboo.

  • Oil Lamp, 1st century BC

    Crude oil lamp with round handle and pressed leaf pattern.

  • Oil Lamp (Italy), 1st century BC

    Handled lamp with depressed center, spade-shaped spout joined to body with pair of volutes. Marks on base: an impressed foot and a strigil in relief.

  • Pleated Fan (USA), ca. 1895

    Pleated folding fan with a black silk gauze leaf, painted with Cupid in a heart-shaped framework at center, surrounded by figures in costumes from various periods and locations. Black carved…

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