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Fan made of painted kid leather and ivory sticks, Flanders, ca. 1720. Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath. This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and
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Fan made of painted kid leather and ivory sticks, Flanders, ca. 1720. Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath. This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and couched silver gilt thread edges the vignette. The thread is stitched in a foliage design among the flowers. There has been a gilt stencilled design at the borders but this has now worn. On the reverse is a stencilled all over pattern of formal red and blue tulips with a linking gilt foliage trail. The top border is of pink leather. The sticks are of ivory, solid but with a serpentine edge. The guards have a pattern of incised diagonal lines. The pin is brass and there is a silver wire filigree washer. Painted leather, silver gilt thread, ivory, brass, silver wire.
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Title: Fan made of painted kid leather and ivory sticks, Flanders, ca. 1720. Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath. This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and
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Fan made of painted kid leather and ivory sticks, Flanders, ca.
1720.
Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath.
This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and couched silver gilt thread edges the vignette.
The thread is stitched in a foliage design among the flowers.
There has been a gilt stencilled design at the borders but this has now worn.
On the reverse is a stencilled all over pattern of formal red and blue tulips with a linking gilt foliage trail.
The top border is of pink leather.
The sticks are of ivory, solid but with a serpentine edge.
The guards have a pattern of incised diagonal lines.
The pin is brass and there is a silver wire filigree washer.
Painted leather, silver gilt thread, ivory, brass, silver wire.
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