Fan
This fan is designed with a sense of high drama. The back is all black, highlighting the iridescence of the feathers at front.Tthe more usual cock feather fans are the same color throughout.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fan
- Date: 1925–35
- Culture: American or European
- Medium: plastic, feather, metal
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, 1955
- Object Number: 2009.300.3171
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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