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1780s
Object PlaceFrance or Netherlands
Medium/TechniqueSkin leaf painted in gouache and gilded; pierced, carved, and gilded ivory sticks; mother-of-pearl
DimensionsGuard: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.); maximum open: 51 cm (20 1/16 in.); arc: 170°
Credit LineOldham Collection
Accession number1976.302
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceGift of Esther Oldham to the MFA, June 9, 1976.
Fan
1740s
Fan
1750s
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1730–40
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1750s
1780s
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1720s
Fan
1760s
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1783–85
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1740s
Fan
about 1740