Maker: Unknown
Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in polychrome and gilt; Sticks of shaped, pierced, painted and gilt ivory; guards of shaped, carved, pierced and painted ivory backed with mother-of-pearl (26+2) steel rivet with green cut paste head. Front: the leaf has a blue ground decorated with a trellis and pink, blue and white flowers, with one large shaped reserve and two small shaped reserves framed by gilt scrolls. The central reserve is decorated with five young people amusing themselves in a landscape; the right reserve has a young man playing a pipe in a landscape; and the left reserve has a seated girl holding a ribbon-bedecked rod in a landscape. Back: a girl sits beside a bush on an island in a landscape, with borders of pink and blue flowers and stylized foliage round the left, top and right sides of the leaf. Sticks: painted with flowers. Guards: carved with a young man playing a pipe enclosed by scrolls, with a flower above and a basket of flowers below.
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
18th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Northwest Europe
Leaf
composed of
paper
gilt
paint
Guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Length 27.1 cm
Rivet
composed of
steel
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Accession number: M.278-1985
Primary reference Number: 117863
Old catalogue number: DR 11/159
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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