Fan
- Object Name:
- Fan
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.74
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Fan. Brise-type with box. Dark, carved and pierced tortoise-shell fan; recessed carving on end sticks. Blue silk ribbon woven through sticks, broken in places. White silk cord and tassel attached to metal end loop. With long, rectangular, lacquered wooden box; painted bird and floral design on cover.
- Material:
- Tortoise shell
Textile
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-12.7 W-21 D-1.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH, (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
- People:
- Tilney, Mary M. (1855-1914), Tilney, Robert F. (1849-1926), Tilney, Jessie Mason (1883-1960)
- Subjects:
- Fans (Accessories)
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