Empire type
Maker: Unknown
Lavender silk, double leaf, with double cream net insertion, decorated with cream silk embroidery (satin stitch), gold sequins and frosted gilt metal paillettes (leaf shaped and seven petalled flower-shaped) silver binding on the upper edge. Bone sticks and guards, pierced and partly silvered. Rivet set with clear pastes. The leaf has a broad net insertion with a scalloped lower edge, bordered at the top by two rows of sequins, and at the bottom, by one. It is embroidered with four cream leaves on a wavy stem worked in sequins and leaf-shaped and seven petalled flower shape paillons. Below the insertion there are seven vertical lines each comprising two rows of flower heads alternating with two rows of sequins, with one row of each next to the guards. The sticks and guards are pierced by simple stylized plant motifs, and the latter are edged by silver-gilt foil.
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, Early#
Circa
1800
CE
-
Circa
1810
CE
Leaf
composed of
silk
( lavender)
net
silk thread
paillons
Width 34.5 cm
Sticks+guards
composed of
bone
Guards
Length 18.9 cm
Accession number: M.185-1985
Primary reference Number: 117770
Old catalogue number: DR 6/95
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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