Maker: Unknown
Leaf of cream net decorated with applied gold foil and cut steels embroidered on with black thread. Sticks: lower part of pierced horn inlaid with cut steels, and above the shoulder of ivory. Guards of horn, pierced, and inlaid with cut steels. The leaf is decorated with 13 panels of of gilt-metal foil stamped with a formal design of scrolling foliage and birds. Along the top edge is a border of cut-steel flower heads from which are suspended between the foil panels, two pendant stem designs, one with a bell flower and five buds, and the other with an oval and three leaves, all stitched on with black thread. The upper edge is bound in gold foil. The lower part of the sticks are decorated with a row of small circular cut steels between two pierced patters. The guards hare pierced by diagonal lines, and inlaid with rows of three small circular cut steels, alternating with rows of tiny cut steels.
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
1805
CE
Leaf
composed of
silk
( net)
Width 31 cm
Decoration
composed of
gilt metal foil
cut steel
Sticks
composed of
horn
ivory
Guards
composed of
horn
cut steel
Length 16.2 cm
Sticks And Guards
Accession number: M.195-1985
Primary reference Number: 117780
Old catalogue number: DR 6/115
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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