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  • Pleated Fan (Spain), late 19th–early 20th century

    Painted paper leaf. Obverse: design of brightly colored flowers and birds on grey ground dusted with metals. Reverse: flowers on a yellow ground. Wood sticks and guards painted black.

  • Pleated Fan (France), ca. 1901

    Pleated fan. Leaf of black silk net with three large off-white cotton needle and bobbin lace thistles applied; embroidered with steel spangles. Tortoise shell sticks embedded with steel spangles; tortoise…

  • Pleated Fan, 18th century

    Pleated fan. Painted and gilded paper leaf. Obverse: three cartouches with figures in the Chinoiserie style. Reverse: Chinoiserie figure. Carved and painted ivory sticks stained blue at rivet; foil behind…

  • Pleated Fan (Japan), late 19th century

    Pleated fan. Stiffened silk leaf painted in the in ‘Ukiyo-e” style with the female figure of an artist sitting before a folding screen. Bamboo sticks.

  • Pleated Fan (possibly France), 20th century

    Pleated fan. Printed paper leaf. Obverse; advertising the French Line with depictions of Europe and North America. Reverse: advertising the French Line with depictions of North Africa and Central America.…

  • Pleated Fan (Netherlands), 20th century

    Pleated fan. Double leaf: front and back, asymmetrical leaves of glazed red paper exposing an increasing amount of stick from right to left. Black lacquered bamboo wood sticks.

  • Pleated Fan (France), 1840–60

    Pleated fan. Printed paper leaf with cartouche enclosing a rustic dutch scene surrounded by embossed ornament on a black ground. Black painted wood sticks.

  • Pleated Fan (France), 1840–60

    Pleated fan. Printed leaf showing a large central cartouche containing a pastoral scene, surrounded by large gilded scrolls. Carved and pierced mother-of-pearl with metallic foil. Faceted stone at rivet.

  • Pleated Fan (France), 1840–60

    Pleated fan. Printed paper leaf showing three large cartouches upon a scrolling ground; at center, a scene with royal barges on a river; at left, a woman on her knees…

  • Pleated Fan, 1900–30

    Pleated fan. Black silk net leaf embroidered all over with small and large black sequins. Faux tortoise shell sticks. Metal bail at rivet.

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