1900-1991
GUSN-49545
White painted bamboo sticks and guards with designs painted in silver and gold; very thin paper leaf painted with scene of pagodas and birds in blossiming cherry tree; very thin metal handle with white silk cord.
fans (equipment)
accessories
bamboo (material)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
bamboo (material)
floral patterns
flowers (plants)
Bamboo
Unidentified Paper
Painted
Pagoda
Blossom
FAN
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.602
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