Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Sticks and guards of stained horn with rounded serrated ends, decorated with applied gold foil; steel rivet and washers and brown silk ribbon. Front; In the centre, a man with a hat is standing in front of a little building (perhaps a mausoleum), trees and two crosses; to the right and left there are sprays of leaves, a swag of leaves and a sprays of flowers. There is a narrow fan-shaped border, which is decorated with leaves at the top and with stripes on the other sides. On the top of each stick there are either three or five leaves. Back: undecorated. Guards: both guards are decorated in the same way with pendant leaves and lozenges.
Notes
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Legal notes
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Width: 24.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1985-01-28)
by
Countess of Rosse, Anne
Dating
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1810
-
Circa
1820
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Ribbon
composed of
woven
( brown)
Sticks And Guards
composed of
gold foil
horn
Rivet And Washers
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 13.5 cm
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.84-1985
Primary reference Number: 117670
Old catalogue number: DR 5/87
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
