Pleated fan
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 landscape with a boat and a bare tree. Guard and sticks of pierced and carved mother-of-pearl with gold foil. Gorge covered with a diaper pattern of applied straw, showing an elaborately carved and pierced rocaille framework enclosing figures.
Credit: Gift of Anonymous Donor
c. 1740
Parchment leaf painted in watercolor, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with gold foil and applied straw decoration
1952-161-223
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