Fire Fan

England

1701/25

Medium
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in tent stitches; edged with silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; backed with linen, plain weave; glazed; wood handle
Classification
Costume and Accessories
Dimensions
30.5 × 25.8 cm (12 × 10 1/8 in.)
Culture
England
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
Credit line
Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago