Brise fan
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
1860
Materials
Bone, Ivory, Mother-of-pearl [pinctada maxima], Paper, Silvered glass, Swansdown
Measurements
228 mm (Length)
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1363179
Summary
Brise fan, Jenny Lind type; the individual leaves of stamped paper painted in gold and edged with swansdown, with lithograph rignette of figures in eighteenth century style; the sticks of pierced ivory; the right hand guard of bone or ivory with small mirror; the pivot with mother-of-pearl stops and tassel loop. 1860 (circa)