Maker: Unknown
Horn sticks and guards (21+2) with ends shaped to resemble crocketed pinnacles, pierced, painted in bodycolour, gilt and set with cut steels. Cream silk ribbon. Steel rivet and washers. Front: below the ribbon there are seven Gothic arches, the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th ornamented in gold with touches of blue and white. The 2nd, and 6th are painted en grisaille with a blue background, and the fourth en grisaille with a purple background, with three of La Fontaine's fables: 'The Cock and the Pearl', 'The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk', and 'The Wolf and the Stork'. The spandrels between the arches are decorated with quatrefoil flowers and scrolling foliage. Below the panels there is a band of pierced stylized plants. Above the ribbon, the pinnacles are pierced by stylized plants and set with cut steels. Back: undecorated. Guards: pierced with stylized plants and bordered by cut steels.
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 Museum
Width: 33.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century, Early#
Louis XVIII
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( cream)
Sticks And Guards
composed of
steel
( cut)
bodycolour
gilt
horn
Guards
Length 17.5 cm
Stick And Guards
Sticksand Guards
Accession number: M.67-1985
Primary reference Number: 117653
Old catalogue number: DR 4/42
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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