Maker: Unknown
Brisé, cockade fan, blades of shaped and pierced horn with applied steel sequins; guards of shaped and pierced horn with applied steel sequins. (19+2) Ribbon of cream coloured silk. Opera glass magnifier set in centre as rivet. Front: Each blade is decorated in the same way with sequins following the shapes and a pierced flower is inside the ribbon; above the ribbon there are serrated rosettes enclosing sequins set in a circle and a sequin in the centre. Back: undecorated. Guards: Both guards are decorated in the same way; the upper part is shaped and decorated like the blades and the handle has three graduated circular shapes, the bottom of which has a rosette.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century, Early#
Napoleon I
Circa
1805
-
Circa
1810
Cockade fans open out into a circle so that the guards form long handles. They may be pleated or brisé. One of the two earliest surviving examples (in the Cathedral Treasury at Monza) is said to have belonged to the Lombard Queen Theodolinda in the 6th century.
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( cream)
Blades+guards
composed of
steel sequins
horn
Rivet
composed of
magnifying glass
Guards
Length 15.9 cm
Inscription present: circular white label with red letters
Accession number: M.49-1985
Primary reference Number: 117635
Old catalogue number: DR 5/70
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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