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The Messel Mica Folding Fan (back)

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An image of The Messel Mica Fan. Folding fan, the leaf composed of three bands of mica panels, mounted in double paper, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Ivory sticks of serpentine form; guards of ivory, the lower part serpentine, the upper part pierced by three panels backed with mica mounted in paper. Brass rivet. Front. The mica panels are painted in colours with different motifs including: floral sprays, flowers in vases, flowers with a bird, flowers with a dog, a dog with a bird, a bird with a dragonfly, a butterfly, a boy with a butterfly, a boy playing a pipe, a Cupid holding a heart, a Cupid brandishing an arrow, a seated boy, a female bust; some occurring more than once, but not identically. The horizontal paper borders between the panels are painted alternately black and blue with gilt ornament. Height (guards) 25.8 cm, width (whole) 45.0 cm, circa 1665 to 1700. Production Place: West Europe.

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The Messel Mica Fan. Folding fan, the leaf composed of three bands of mica panels, mounted in double paper, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Ivory sticks of serpentine form; guards of ivory, the lower part serpentine, the upper part pierced by three panels backed with mica mounted in paper. Brass rivet. Front. The mica panels are painted in colours with different motifs including: floral sprays, flowers in vases, flowers with a bird, flowers with a dog, a dog with a bird, a bird with a dragonfly, a butterfly, a boy with a butterfly, a boy playing a pipe, a Cupid holding a heart, a Cupid brandishing an arrow, a seated boy, a female bust; some occurring more than once, but not identically. The horizontal paper borders between the panels are painted alternately black and blue with gilt ornament. Height (guards) 25.8 cm, width (whole) 45.0 cm, circa 1665 to 1700. Production Place: West Europe.

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  • Accession Number: M.359-1985
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 607 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 236.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century Date Department European Fitz_AA Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords People Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCr birds cupid dogs fan fashion figures floral flowers folding fan hand fan ivory mica

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rgb(192,167,134), rgb(113,96,74), rgb(118,139,135), rgb(53,113,145), rgb(4,4,4), rgb(63,81,82), rgb(61,51,40), rgb(173,68,50), rgb(172,100,55), rgb(38,56,75), rgb(32,40,35)

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