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Maker: Unknown
Folding fan of silk, backed with paper. On the silk obverse is a chinoiserie figurative scene painted in gouache and gold paint and decorated with gilt-thread tambour-work outlining, stitched coloured-metal sequins (blue and yellow) and adhered coloured metal foil (red and blue) paillettes. The top edge and sides of the leaf are edged with applied gilt paper. Decoratively-carved sticks and guards of elephant ivory, overlaid with silver part-coloured by tinted lacquer; the ring-and dot motifs on the obverse sticks inlaid with red metal foil. Paper, previously silvered(?), is adhered to the reverse of alternate sticks. The sticks are united with a copper alloy rivet and mother-of-pearl spacers.
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
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1780
Leaf
composed of
paper
silk
embroidery
gouache
Inlay
composed of
foil
Overlay
composed of
silver
Sticks, Guards
composed of
ivory
Guards
Length 27.5 cm
Foil
Accession number: M.136-1985
Primary reference Number: 117721
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Folding fan" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117721 Accessed: 2023-11-29 00:18:59
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