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Bone or ivory and feather fan w/ 24 pierced slats in an oriental design. Individual feathers jammed on tenon of each slat and painted to look like peacock feathers.
fans (equipment)
accessories
bone (material)
carving (processes)
feather (material)
ivory (tooth component)
painting (coating)
collecting
feather (material)
Bone
Vegetable Ivory
Feather
Carved
Painted
Collecting
FAN
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
A.A. Vantine & Co.
Unknown
9 x 0.5 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.5369
New York state (United States)
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