Fan with a mount of white ostrich feathers on tortoiseshell (?) sticks
Also known as: Waaier met een steundeel van witte struisveren op een montuur van schildpad (?)
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1900 - c. 1910
Fan with a leaf of white ostrich feathers on sticks of tortoiseshell (?). The sticks consist of twenty contiguous blades; with a leaf of white ostrich feathers.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1967-54; its record gives material recorded as tortoise shell. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- tortoise shell
- Dimensions museum
- span 74 cm x length 37.5 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Waaier met een steundeel van witte struisveren op een montuur van schildpad (?)
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1967-54
- Museum classification
- fan
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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