Maker: Unknown
Folding fan, leaf of white net with a gold paper binding along the top, decorated with a wide band of applied stamped and cut gold metallic sheet in panels, over which there are polished steel panels with elliptical piercing and three rows of swags. Below there are polished steel palmettes with three leaves below each. All the polished steels are attached by black silk thread. Sticks and guards of ivory (12+2), the sticks are shaped and pierced with stylized plant motifs and set with a star and three small circular polished steels. The guards are pierced by a wedge-shaped hole laid over a pierced sheet of steel, surrounded by borders of small circular steels. Steel rivet.
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#
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
Leaf
composed of
silk thread
( black)
metallic sheet
( gold)
steel
( palmettes)
net
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Accession number: M.196-1985
Primary reference Number: 117781
Old catalogue number: DR 6/100
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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