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1760-1769
GUSN-49546
Narrow ivory sticks painted with brown, red and blue flowers; guards carved, pierced and painted with bird and flowers; paper or kid leaf painted with scene of three figures with black birds; Chinese style; enclosed by pink and blue flowers on brown ground; reverse painted with figure in pink and yellow with two birds on leash.
fans (equipment)
accessories
carving (processes)
ivory (tooth component)
kidskin
painting (coating)
piercing
Chinoiserie
Fan, Hand
Fan, Hand
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.603
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