Title
Folding fan
Mediumbone, silk
Dimensions14 × 25 3/4 in. (35.6 × 65.4 cm)
Object number00.180.30.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionThe guard sticks and sticks of this fan are carved bone. Eight of the sticks are embellished with gold and silver foil paint. The fan leaf is made of gray silk organza with a pink lace trim on the top edge and a small gray lace trim on the bottom edge. There are paintings of flowers and butterflys between the sticks on the fan leaf.On View
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