Brisé fan
Cooper Hewitt

Brisé fan

1710–20

Carved, pierced and painted ivory sticks with tortoise thumbguard and glass rivet, leather ribbon
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Brisé fan with ivory sticks carved à jour, decorated on obverse and reverse with birds, animals and foliage (phoenixes,mythical qilins, and peonies) in red, green, blue and gilt enamel. With a tortoiseshell thumbguard and a glass stone at the rivet, threaded with leather ribbon.

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