Object Number: TB4027

Collection: Social History

Object Name: fan, folding

Description: Paper leaf fan, printed and coloured on one side, painted on reverse. Ivory sticks shaped and pierced, pierced ivory guards; pierced and set with mother of pearl spangles. Leaf is block printed and hand painted with a Biblical scene, possibly the moment when the people of Lystra, impressed when Saints Paul and Barnabas heal a disabled person, mistake them as gods Mercury and Jupiter and prepare to make sacrifices in their honour before Paul and Barnabas beg them to stop.

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