Silk fan
Category
Costume
Date
1920
Materials
Hand-painted silk gauze, silk lace, wood, enamelled metal.
Measurements
360 x 650 x 30 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602504
Summary
A woman's fan, made from black silk gauze, black silk lace and wood. The gauze and lace leaf is decorated with a hand-painted floral pattern of small purple flowers and white vines and is otherwise undecorated. The black japanned wood guards, sticks and ribs are plain and undecorated and the fan is secured at the base with an enamelled metal pivot and handle.