Brisé feather fan of swirling down feathers. 1910-1929. Feathers with a mother of pearl monture. Archival ID#MNY64910. Collections of the Museum of the city of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&AlbumChain=Highlights%2fFans%2f&PackageBrowsingMode=1&VBID=24UP1O5PFSDB&RW=142 Folding feather fan with clipped aqua blue ostrich feathers. Faux tortoise shell monture and textured gilt metal loop with a white metal pin. Paper hang tag stamped: Made in France. Intended to be used as a hand prop by debutante participating in the Junior League “Winter Ball”, held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. Dated 1990-1999. Archival ID#MNY54970 . Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&AlbumChain=Highlights%2fFans%2f&PackageBrowsingMode=1&VBID=24UP1O5PFSDB&RW=1423&RH=Fixed feather fan in turkey and marabou with two layers of turkey feathers, the rear layer light brown with brown and white banded tips and the front layer with iridescent band at tips. Brown and white marabou feathers at the base. Woven black and white straw handle. 1840-1849. Archival ID#MNY72614 Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&AlbumChain=Highlights%2fFans%2f&PackageBrowsingMode=1&VBID=24UP1O5PFSDB&RW=1423&RH=630 Bouquet folding fan, the paper leaf with overpainted chromolithograph scenes. The back with stylized figures in a landscape with a stream in the foreground and the front with an 18th century style figured scene. Perforated ivory monture with gilt inlay, a gilt framed mirror to the guard and dyed feather and silk bouquets applied to the guards. ca. 1850. Marks: Reverse mount initialed DAL ? marked brevete (patented). Archival ID#MNY80752. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&AlbumChain=Highlights%2fFans%2f&PackageBrowsingMode=1&VBID=24UP1O5PFSDB&RW=1423&RH= Fixed fan of pink Moluccan cockatoo feathers, the front with a single central ruby hummingbird ringed with iridescent whole beetles and white feather flowers and the back with a central stemmed floral and foliate cluster comprised of feathers. Ivory handle, pierced and carved in a scrolling leaf design. 1860-1869. Archival ID#MNY80754 Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&AlbumChain=Highlights%2fFans%2f&PackageBrowsingMode=1&VBID=24UP1O5PFSDB&RW=1423&RH=Jenny Lind-style fan of red silk palmettes edged with white down feathers, applied spangles. Natural wood monture, pierced with applied spangles. 1855. Maker not known. Archival ID#MNY87269. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Fans/Page2Fontage-style folding fan with pheasant feather blades, brown silk connecting ribbon, tortoiseshell sticks and guards and cream silk tassel. 1892. Maker not known. Archival ID#MNY87297. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Fans/Page2Curled purple ostrich feather folding fan with sandalwood sticks and guards, pierced and carved. 1890-1919. Maker not known. Archival ID#MNY89817. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Fans/Page2Yellow ostrich feather folding fan, each ostrich feather tipped with a facsimile rooster head. Dark tortoiseshell sticks and guards. ca. 1890. Maker not known. Archival ID#MNY91203. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Fans/Page2Fixed wedding fan of white rippled and curled duck or chicken flight feathers with a central spray of egret feathers with down. Cream satin ribbon loop with bow. Carried by Adele Louise Faile (-1938) at her marriage to John Aaron Browning (-1930) on July 9, 1886 at Holy Trinity Church. 1886. Maker not known. Archival ID#MNY91317. Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. Fair use license. via https://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Fans/Page2
“The Tassel”. Plate 118, page 189. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/189/mode/1up“The Fringe and the Valance.” Plate 119, page 191. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/191/mode/1up“The Foliated Shaft.” Plate 121, page 196. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/196/mode/1up“The Trapezophoron.” Plate 143, page 233. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/233/mode/1upEnclosed Ornament: The Circular Panel. Plate 157. Page 258 of Meyer Franz Sales’ Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use which was published in 1900. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/258/mode/1upEnclosed Ornament: The Lozenge Panel. Plate 168. Page 273 of Meyer Franz Sales’ Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use which was published in 1900. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/273/mode/1upVases: The Römer or Rummer. Plate 206. Page 350 of Meyer Franz Sales’ Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use which was published in 1900. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/350/mode/1upMetal Objects: The Renascence (Renaissance) Candelabrum. Plate 212. Page 363 of Meyer Franz Sales’ Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use which was published in 1900. Collections of and digitalized by Wellesley College. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/handbookoforname1900meye/page/363/mode/1up
Title page. Page 3. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n3/mode/1up?view=theater“Iron Work.” Page 7. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater“Flemish.” Page 11. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater‘Italian: from a rare etching by Guido Reni after Lucas Cambiaso.” Page 13. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theaterGothic scroll. Page 22. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theaterElizabethan panels. Page 6. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/6/mode/1up?view=theaterWindow heads – Elizabethan. Page 36. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/36/mode/1up?view=theaterFire screen – Grotesque. Page 16. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/16/mode/1up?view=theaterCeilings – Italian. Page 18 from Samuel Leith’s 1847 work The Tradesman’s Book of ornamental Designs. British, published in London. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/18/mode/1up?view=theaterMoorish and Flemish. Page 21 from Samuel Leith’s 1847 work The Tradesman’s Book of ornamental Designs. British, published in London. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/21/mode/1up?view=theaterTrellis work – Gothic. Page 23 from Samuel Leith’s 1847 work The Tradesman’s Book of ornamental Designs. British, published in London. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/23/mode/1up?view=theaterWindow heads – Elizabethan. Page 23 from Samuel Leith’s 1847 work The Tradesman’s Book of ornamental Designs. British, published in London. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/33/mode/1up?view=theater
