Maker: Unknown
Ivory, pierced, carved, painted in bodycolour, silvered and gilt.(24+2) Cream kid ribbon. Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.
Front: In the middle, a circular medallion painted with a European riverside landscape enclosed by an engraved gold frame with a silver suspension loop and bow at the top. The rest of the fan is pierced by fine longtitudinal striations and carved below the ribbon with two oval, two smaller circular and two lozenge-shaped medallions of Chinese scenes amid scrolling flowers and foliage. Above the ribbon there are small panels containing fruit, flowers, birds, butterflies and landscapes and figures.
Reverse: In the middle, a painted arrangement of flowers within a blue wreath.
Guards: Carved with buildings in a landscape.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Chinese for the European market; possibly painted in Europe.
Ribbon
composed of
kid
( cream)
Sticks
composed of
gilt
gouache
Washers
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Rivet
composed of
steel
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Guards
Length 18.8 cm
Accession number: M.96-1985
Primary reference Number: 117681
Old catalogue number: DR 12/203
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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