Maker: Unknown
Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in body colour and watercolours. Sticks of pierced ivory with applied gold foil and varnished paintings. Guards pierced, carved, painted and inlaid with gold foil and backed with mother-of-pearl (18+2). Rivet set with clear pastes. Front: three medallions on a puce background, decorated with sprays of blue flowers and gold garlands. In the large oval cartouche in the centre, there are two sitting women, one knitting, one with flowers in her lap, and a boy carrying a basket of flowers on a stick. The background comprises, a cloth draped over a column and an urn on a pedestal and buildings to the left. The tow smaller flanking medallions show putti making music on the right and drawing on the left. a thin gold pattern sits on the top and lower border, a gold twig on the left and the top edging is of gold foil. Back: Two buildings and trees sit on a little island (the same as in the background on the front leaf) bordered by flowers in blue and pink. Sticks: Three different pairs of sticks: putti on a panel with pierced parts on the bottom and on top, two columns and two sticks forming a pierced panel with a vase of flowers. Guards: Both guards are decorated in a similar way: a column at the shoulder and the guard proper is decorated with a medallion with flowers, two putti, a standing figure, a wreath and swags on top.
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, Late
Circa
1880
CE
-
1890
CE
European, possibly German
Leaf
composed of
watercolour
bodycolour
Guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Length 26.8 cm
Sticks+guards
composed of
gold
ivory
Accession number: M.162-1985
Primary reference Number: 117747
Old catalogue number: DR 11/160
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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