Folding fan — Amsterdam Museum
Record status
Individual type · partial
Folding fan is held by Amsterdam Museum (Netherlands). Description supplied by the holding institution: Folding fan with ivory carved and painted legs with a top of open woven linen or cotton. The top is painted with a depiction of a female figure and a sleeping boy on a sofa. On both sides of the sofa a caryatid. The figures are painted, special is that the faces are painted on an extra piece of paper. The clothing of the figures consists of gold-coloured sequins. Along the edge and in the image there are gold-coloured sequins. Star-shaped silver sequins have been sewn all over the sheet.\ The female figure is wearing a wide robe, with a high waist just below the bosom; this indicates an early Empire dress. Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
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- Photograph views
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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Identification
- Europeana id
- /2048221/europeana_fashion_KA_12617_1
- Museum object name
- Folding fan
- Holding institution
- Amsterdam Museum
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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