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1885-1890
GUSN-53224
Long, varnished wooden sticks and guards with carved design painted in gold; large cotton leaf printed on one side with seven figures in 18th Century dress watching a fiddler and a monkey in a pastoral setting; in blue, green, yellow, pink and brown; metal ring and rivet.
fans (equipment)
accessories
carving (processes)
cotton (textile)
painting (coating)
printing (process)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
musicians
monkeys (animals)
pastoral
Cotton
Transfer Printed
Painted
Carved
Monkey
Fiddler
Classical Figure
Pastoral
FAN
Unknown
1942.918
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