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1850s
GUSN-37934
Wide ivory sticks, pierced and inlaid with silver; paper leaf painted and lithographed with pastoral scene of three men and four women in 18th Century dress; enclosed by printed silver scrolling foliate border; reverse has cream ground with pastoral scene of two women and two men (one man is shepherd, other plays horn); pink silk tassel.
fans (equipment)
accessories
gouache (paint)
ivory (tooth component)
lithography
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
Fan, Hand
Fan, Hand
Handwritten tag: ""22 B"".
Unknown
Gift of Miss Florence Viaux
1935.714
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