Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Sticks of cut and pierced ivory, painted in polychrome and decorated with feathers and painted applications. Guards cut, pierced and carved ivory (25+2). Ribbon of white silk; rivet set with clear circular, cut pastes. Front: below the ribbon, the fan is decorated in nine rows of different pierced patterns, bordered by rows of dots. The painted area above the ribbon has a bird sitting on sprays of roses in the centre, bordered by alternating butterflies and birds amid sprays of flowers. Back: undecorated. Guards: Both guards have similar pierced decoration with a snowflake motif near the top.
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: 30.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1985-01-28)
by
Countess of Rosse, Anne
Dating
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1820
-
Circa
1830
Note
Made in China but decorated in the Netherlands
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Rivet
composed of
pastes
( clear)
Sticks
composed of
bodycolour
( probably)
feathers
applied decoration
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( white)
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Guards
Length 17.1 cm
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper
- Text: 106327/o/-/ Chinese
- Location: On back of last stick when looking at fan from the front
- Method of creation: Hand-written in faded black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.111-1985
Primary reference Number: 117696
Old catalogue number: DR 3/41 on fan
Old catalogue number: DR 12/195
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
