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Folding fan with a leaf depicting, in watercolour, an outdoor party with a dancing couple and bagpipers, on a mother-of-pearl mount with 'métal en quatre couleurs'
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Folding fan with a leaf depicting, in watercolour, an outdoor party with a dancing couple and bagpipers, on a mother-of-pearl mount with 'métal en quatre couleurs'

anonymous · c. 1775 - c. 1780 · inlay (process); paint; cutting; silver leaf; mother of pearl; parchment (animal material); watercolor (paint); gold leaf

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Mother-of-pearl mount with stone at the locking pin; 16 non-connected ribs worked with three medallions of leaf silver and leaf gold; paper leaf painted in watercolor with a bal champêtre, five persons and two bagpipe players under a canopy, back side foliage with a church.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
vouwwaaier
Credit lineVouwwaaier met een blad waarop in aquarel een buitenpartij met een dansend paar en doedelzakspelers, op een montuur van parelmoer met 'métal en quattre couleurs'. c. 1775 - c. 1780. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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