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1750s
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Paper leaf painted in gouache; pierced, painted, and regilded ivory sticks; paste
Dimensions
Guard: 27 (10 5/8); maximum open: 45 cm (17 11/16 in.); arc: 120°
Credit Line
Oldham Collection
Accession Number1976.226
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDouble paper leaf. Obverse: "The Trinket Seller," set outside a formal garden. Woman carrying basket of cakes left, traveling salesman offers woman and man trinkets from chest center, man and woman around sundial right, floral border. reverse design of pastoral scene of man playing instrument, woman lying down, floral border. Fifteen pierced, painted,and gilded ivory sticks with chinoserie design, diamond paste stud in rivet.
Provenance1976, gift of Esther Oldham (b. 1900 - d. 1984), Wellesley, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 9, 1976)