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Fan

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1900-1930

GUSN

GUSN-25400

Description

Twisted metal ring handle w/ black painted wooden stays. White paper fan w/ gray, brown and gilt bird motifs and Oriental landscape scenes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fans (equipment)
accessories
metal
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Orientalism
Unidentified Paper
Unidentified Metal
Orientalism
FAN

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.571

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