The Messel Standing Feather Fan

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Screen Fan. The Messel Standing Feather Fan. Woven gut panels mounted on concealed frames, decorated with feathers of the purple-breasted cotinga (cotinga amabilis) and other birds; stick of turned wood, height, whole, 34.0 cm, width, whole, 23.0 cm, height, case, 40.0 cm, width, case, 32.0 cm, circa 1665. European. Acquisition Credit: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Messel-Rosse Collection.
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