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Folding Fan

This is a Folding fan. It is dated 1880–1889 and we acquired it in 2018. Its medium is box guards, sticks, and slips of tortoiseshell. incised designs with gold highlights on the guards and sticks, tortoiseshell cap at the rivet and on the clasp of the box guards.. It is a part of the department.

This object was transferred from The Corcoran Gallery of Art. It is credited Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Its dimensions are

H x W (open): 24.8 × 47.5 cm (9 3/4 × 18 11/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Folding Fan; box guards, sticks, and slips of tortoiseshell. incised designs with gold highlights on the guards and sticks, tortoiseshell cap at the rivet and on the clasp of the box guards.; H x W (open): 24.8 × 47.5 cm (9 3/4 × 18 11/16 in.); Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; 2018-50-5

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