Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Folding fan, double paper leaf, painted and spattered in watercolour, decorated with appliquéd painted pink silk and green, yellow, red and brown straw and gilt. Sticks and guards of pierced ivory (20+2), the upper end of the latter is also carved in low relief, gilt and backed with red silk. Rivet set with two clear pastes. Front: a chinoiserie scene comprising a seated china man beside a flowering shrub, a tree in a barrel, a group of three china men, two seated and one standing and a tree beside a pavilion. On all edges there is a border of continuous wavy foliage in gold. Reverse: A spray of four different flowering branches. Sticks: unusual type, comprising narrow rectangular blades pierced with vertical rectangular openings (2 1 2 1) separated by horizontal bars. When closed they form a cylinder with openings through it. Occasionally this form of stick-bunching is called 'Chippendale'. Guards: the lower part en suite with the sticks; the upper part carved with two hounds, a diaper panel, a gentleman playing the flute and a floral spray in a C-scroll.
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.
When closed the sticks and guards from a cylinder with vertical piercing.
Components of the work
Appliqué
composed of
straw (plant material)
( green, yellow, red and brown)
silk
( pink)
Guards
composed of
silk
( red)
Length 28.5 cm
Leaf
composed of
paper
watercolours
Width 47 cm
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.150-1985
Primary reference Number: 117735
Old catalogue number: DR 30/393
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 22 November 2021
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
