Brisé fan, for use as a dance card, of wood with a copper fan ring holding a silk cord with pencil in a nickel holder
Also known as: Brisé waaier, te gebruiken als balboekje, van hout met koperen waaierring waaraan een zijden koord met potlood in nikkelen houder
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
in or before 1907
Brisé fan, for use as a dance card, of wood with a copper fan ring holding a silk cord with pencil in a nickel holder. Model: consisting of 17 blades of plain wood and two guard sticks of lacquered wood.
Fan ribbon in the same pink-beige colour as the blades. Guard ring of mother-of-pearl. Twisted silk cord with tassel and ring to wear the fan on one of the fingers during dancing. Tassel with a wooden core wrapped in silk thread and ending in a bundle of twined silk threads. Nickel holder from which the pencil emerges with a twisting movement. Inscriptions and signatures have been placed on the back. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-2011-16; its record gives material recorded as mother of pearl, nickel (metal), copper (metal), silk, wood (plant material); technique weaving, cutting; measurements length 26 cm x span 46 cm.
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.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- mother of pearl, nickel (metal), copper (metal), silk, wood (plant material)
- Technique
- weaving, cutting
- Measurements
- length 26 cm x span 46 cm
- Dimensions museum
- length 26 cm x span 46 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Brisé waaier, te gebruiken als balboekje, van hout met koperen waaierring waaraan een zijden koord met potlood in nikkelen houder
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-2011-16
- Museum classification
- brisé fan
Catalogue references
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Research required
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