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  • Pleated Fan, mid- 18th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted with watercolor. Obverse: pastoral landscape with figures. Reverse: floral border and centre sketch of a woman and Cupid. Carved and pierced showing figures and scrolls.…

  • Pleated Fan, ca. 1840

    Pleated fan. Gilded paper leaf with hand-colored lithograph. Obverse: 18th century style figures in a formal garden. Reverse: landscape with dunes, caves and a mountain. Horn sticks engraved with bee…

  • Pleated Fan, late 18th–early 19th century

    Pleated fan. Gilded parchment leaf painted with gouache. Obverse: classical scene illustrating the sacrifice of Iphigenia showing a sorrowing warrior at left; at center, a sacrificial altar to which the…

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

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf gilded and painted with gouache. Obverse: rustic landscape with figures: a crowned and enthroned man; a woman standing, crowned. Reverse: landscape with sheep and shepherd. Pierced,…

  • Pleated Fan (Germany), late 18th–mid- 19th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf backed with paper. Obverse painted in gouache and gold: a landscape with figure groups in front of a building with large fountain. Reverse: landscape with single…

  • Pleated Fan, ca. 1820

    Pleated fan. Bobbin lace leaf in natural linen color. Pierced ivory sticks piquéd, incised and silvered.

  • Pleated Fan (France), 18th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted with gouache in grisaille. Obverse: a large central cartouche showing figures in a landscape with sheep; a small cartouche at left with musical trophy and…

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

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted with thin gouache showing wind-blown cupid, aster flowers and cat-tails. Pierced mother-of-pearl sticks.

  • Pleated Fan (probably France), ca. 1901

    Pleated fan. Black silk net leaf with white cotton needle lace motifs of irises, scrolls and flower sprays applied; lace elements embroidered with silver-colored steel spangles. The sticks are of…

  • Pleated Fan (France), 18th century

    Pleated fan. Parchment leaf gilded and painted in gouache showing two boys in a landscape next to a tomb. A painted chain casts a trompe-l’oeil shadow on border. Pierced and…

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