Current Location: In storage
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Description
Double net leaf decorated with lace cut gold foil and applied pieces of gold foile cut steel. Sticks of fretted horn with cut steel applications and incrustations backed with cut steel and gold foil. Rivet and washer of steel. Front: On the lower leaf, three rows of profiled gold foil stars, with above them swags of cut steel leaves. On the upper half gold foil lace form sits with a row of arches formed by cut steel leaves and a Greek key pattern on top. The top and lower edging are of gold foil.. Back: undecorated. Sticks: A row of pierced horn twigs, one of cut steel circles, one of pierced circles and a row of larger circles. The reverse is undecorated. Guards: Both guards are decorated in the same way: six steel circles of different size on the bottom, small circles bordering a triangular panel, backed with profiled gold foil and pierced cut steel. A cut steel anthemion motif is applied on at the top.
Double silk leaf, painted and decorated with applied paper, gold and silver sequins, stamped gold foil, steel spangles, and fabric.
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
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Components of the work
Leaf
composed of
foil
( gold)
net
Width 29.5 cm
Sticks+guards
composed of
horn
Rivet+washer
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 16.2 cm
Sticks
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.201-1985
Primary reference Number: 117786
Old catalogue number: DR 6/116
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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
