Collection Highlights
Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
Date:
1807
Object Number:
MSS.NewYorkCity.Misc.1
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fan with box
Object Number:
INV.8616ab
Date:
1870-1900
Medium:
Ivory, paper, silk, silver, other metal, mother of pearl, cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall (fan closed): 10 1/8 x 1 1/4 x 3/4 in. (25.7 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm)
Box: 1 3/8 x 10 x 1 3/8 in. ( 3.5 x 25.4 x 3.5 c
Marks:
handwritten in pencil: on paper tag attached with string to handle: "COX"
Description:
Fan with pierced ivory guards and sticks with applied silver borders and bands, and the lower guard carved like twisted rope; paper leaf, the obverse with color-printed image centered on white ground of two men and two women in eighteenth-century costume standing in front of garden backdrop; metal handle with pink silk tassel and rivet with mother of pearl buttons; cardboard box covered in embossed white paper.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
