c. 1750
Fan
Artist/maker unknownEighteenth-century deportment prescribed how fans were held while curtseying, standing, sitting, and walking. This fan features a mythological scene of Venus and her son Aeneas on the leaf, inlaid straw chinoiserie figures and buildings on the sticks, and serpentine swirls around a tiny figure on the pierced guards.
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