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Love's Arrows
Maker: Unknown
Ivory sticks and guards in the form of arrows with circular cut steel framed peepholes in the flights, and circular eyeglass in both guards (19+2). Decorated with engraving to resemble feathers, covered with silver foil. A cream silk ribbon is threaded through a row of slits below the peepholes. Steel washers to the rivets. Reverse is undecorated.
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: 25.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
Ribbon
composed of
silk ribbon
( cream)
Sticks And Guards
composed of
silver foil
ivory
Eyeglass
composed of
steel
glass
Rim Of Peepholes
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 14.1 cm
Inscription present: circular white paper label printed in a circle with the words and above surrounding the number
Accession number: M.119-1985
Primary reference Number: 117704
Old catalogue number: DR 5/68
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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