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1905

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1910

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2018

2025

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Folding Fan And Box

This is a Folding fan and box. It was retailed by Stern Brothers, New York. It is dated 1905–1910 and we acquired it in 2018. Its medium is sticks of tinted mother-of-pearl decorated with elaborate raised painted orientalist design, carved à jour and backed with tinted mother-of-pearl on reverse. slips of gold painted mother-of-pearl. mother-of-pearl washer and metal loop at the rivet. le. It is a part of the department.

This object was transferred from The Corcoran Gallery of Art. It is credited Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Its dimensions are

H x W (open): 24.9 × 26 cm (9 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

The box for this fan, which may have been original is marked “Stern Brothers, Forty Second Street West, New York, Fans and Opera Glasses.”

Cite this object as

Folding Fan And Box; Retailed by Stern Brothers, New York; sticks of tinted mother-of-pearl decorated with elaborate raised painted orientalist design, carved à jour and backed with tinted mother-of-pearl on reverse. slips of gold painted mother-of-pearl. mother-of-pearl washer and metal loop at the rivet. le; H x W (open): 24.9 × 26 cm (9 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; 2018-50-2-a,b

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