Pleated fan
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, after engraving by Thomas Allom; a woman with fan, the hippodrome, with mosque of Achmet, column of Constantine and Egyptian obelisk. Pierced and gilded ivory sticks painted with flowers and nautical scene. Gilt bail, chain and tassel.
Credit: Gift of Anonymous Donor
mid- 19th century
Gilded and painted paper leaf with chromolithograph, gilded, pierced and painted ivory sticks, gilt bail, chain and tassel
1952-161-218
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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