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  • Pleated Fan, ca. 1740

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in watercolor. Obverse: scene of figures in a landscape after “L’Assemblée Galante” of Jean-Antoine Watteau. Reverse: Chinoiserie scene with a man and woman in a…

  • Pleated Fan, mid- 19th century

    Pleated fan. Paper leaf with chromolithograph showing decorative designs and Turkish scenes. Obverse, from left: the Bosphorus with the sultan’s barge; figure smoking a hookah; a slave market in Constantinople,…

  • Pleated Fan, mid- 18th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted with classical scene after the fresco called “Aurora and the Hours.” Small gilt-scroll borders. Reverse: painted with outdoor scene. Carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks overlaid…

  • Pleated Fan, 1760–80

    Pleated fan. Leaf of painted parchment backed with painted paper; sticks of incised and pierced mother-of-pearl with applied metallic foil; glass stone at the rivet. The figures in the central…

  • Pleated Fan, mid- 19th century

    Pleated fan. Paper leaf with hand-colored lithograph. Obverse: romantic scene of pleasure boat and figured in 17th century costume. Reverse: romantic pastoral scene showing shepherds and shepherdesses in country landscape.…

  • Pleated Fan, mid- 19th century

    Pleated fan. Gilded paper leaf with lithographs. Obverse: purple and copper-colored paper gilded showing three proscenium arches with curtains and pseudo-Renaissance motifs framing hand-colored lithographs of theatrical Spanish scenes. At…

  • Pleated Fan (Italy), late 18th–early 19th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf gilded and painted in watercolors. Obverse: birth scene in woodland setting with mother reclining on couch while the child is washed and attended by maidens. At…

  • Pleated Fan, late 18th century

    Pleated fan with a gilded parchment leaf painted with watercolor. Obverse: figured in 18th-century costume in landscape. At left, a mother and child with hoop. Reverse: paper painted with scenes…

  • Pleated Fan, 1780–1900

    Pleated fan. Gilded parchment leaf painted with gouache and embroidered with sequins. Obverse: figures in 18th-century dress divided into three panels. Reverse: three panels, each enclosing a spray of flowers.…

  • Pleated Fan, mid- 19th century

    Pleated fan, Painted white satin leaf. Obverse: scattered flowers, grasses and cherry blossoms. Carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks applied with gold foil. White chenille tassel. Pin is set with a…

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