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1890-1900
GUSN-49544
Narrow painted bamboo sticks with brown, blue and gilt; one guard painted and set with mother pearl; paper leaf painted in brown with promenade scene with figures in 18th C. western dress; sedan chair; metal handle.
fans (equipment)
accessories
bamboo (material)
inlay (process)
mother of pearl
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
bamboo (material)
sedan chairs
Bamboo
Unidentified Paper
Mother-of-Pearl
Painted
Inlaid
Sedan Chair
Classical Figure
FAN
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.601
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