Fan
Category
Costume
Date
1860 - 1900
Materials
Pierced bone, silk ribbon.
Measurements
260 x 440 x 20 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602928
Summary
A woman's fan made from pierced bone. The fan is made from twenty separate bone sticks which have pierced decoration in a mixed floral motif and which are held together with cream silk ribbon insertion along the upper edge, intact. There is matching cream silk ribbon acting as a pivot to hold the fan together at the base.