Very large fan with long, white painted wood guards, worked with silver flowers, and back at leaf level with a long, wedge-shaped strip of plain wood. The 13 sticks are plain, fine, flat, painted white wood, also worked with silver flowers. The whole is secured by a metal rod. Attached to the tassel loop is a cream silk and cotton tassel. One of the guards is broken. The leaf is of white, treated cotton canvas backed cream satin, which extends Âľ of the way up the leaf, embroidered with 3 butterflys in metallic ribbon, the upper 1/3rd of the leaf consisting of white feathers.