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Pleated fan
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Folding fan with ivory sticks carved à jour with decoration in silver and gilt. Silk leaf with small, repeated flower pattern embroidered in white, yellow, and brown on a blue ground; the reverse is plain white silk.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit linePleated fan. 1840–60. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Samuel P. Avery. CC0.
