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Folding fan with a paper leaf (?) featuring a cartouche with a pastoral scene in watercolour, on a mount of relief-carved ivory with silver leaf
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Ivory mount; 14 non-connected ribs cut out and inlaid with leaf silver; paper leaf painted in watercolor, front cartouche with a shepherd scene, on either side a rectangle with a beehive and fruit, back branch with flowers. Copper locking pin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVouwwaaier met een blad van papier (?) waarop in aquarel een cartouche met pastorale voorstelling, op een montuur van in reliëf gesneden ivoor voorzien van bladzilver. c. 1780 - c. 1795. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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