Folding fan
1900
- Medium
- Printed cotton leaf on obverse with dyed and glazed cotton leaf on reverse; narrow woven binding at edge of leaf; ebonized wood sticks with wood slips; metal loop and bone washer at the rivet.
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Folding fan with Aesthetic Movement style printed cotton leaf depicting eight different overlapping designs for ceramic plates of the period surrounded by a small fish scale pattern. The reverse leaf is dyed and glazed dark brown cottton. The sticks and guards are made of wood ebonized black with unpainted wood slips in between the two layers of the leaf. At the edge of the fan, binding the two layers together, is a narrow woven binding tape that is dyed black. At the rivet there is a bone washer and metal loop.