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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Fan, Hand

Object/Artifact

Bone guards and sticks, spliced to wood splinters within leaf; pierced design on former; front leaf is printed with silver tracery surrounding 3 lithographed cartouches containing medieval garden scenes with people. Back leaf printed with blue sprigs and silver vermicelli. Hand colored. No loop. Silvery metal splints on guard sticks. 9.5” long.

G88.111

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Accessory

Adult, Female

Historic Costume

1850

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