Maker: Unknown
Brisé fan, sticks and guards of pierced, fretted and painted in body colour bone; thumb guard of mother-of-pearl (28+2) white ribbon; iron rivet and mother-of-pearl washers. Front: the fan is decorated in three zones, the middle of which has three similar cartouches on a background of finely cut flowers and foliage with painted blossoms. The cartouches are of two blue wavy scrolls bordered with a gold line supporting a lilac pedestal; above two roses are worked in a gold medallion. Three gold lilies crown the cartouche. The zone on top, bordered by the ribbon, has three wavy blue and gold double scrolls on a similar background, each directly above a cartouche and with two roses in the middle. The bottom row is of a regular pattern. The top border is of gold dots between gold lines. The lower border is of a lilac line, the left edging of a blue line. Back: undecorated. Guards flowers and foliage bordered by a blue line.
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
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century, Early#
Louis XVIII or Charles X
Circa
1820
-
Circa
1830
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( probably)
Sticks+guards
composed of
bodycolour
bone
Rivet
composed of
iron
Washers+thumbguard
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Guards
Length 22.2 cm
Accession number: M.106-1985
Primary reference Number: 117691
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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