Maker: Unknown
Double paper leaf, painted in water-colours ? bodycolour and appliqued with coloured silk and painted ivory. Gold binding on upper edge. Sticks of pierced and carved ivory stained red and gilt. Guards of carved ivory, stained red and gilt. (14+2) Rivet set with clear pastes.
Front: Within borders of fish, bats and symbols, forty men, women and children are arranged in groups inside and outside buildings. They have faces of applied painted ivory and clothes of silk.
Reverse: Within borders of fish, bats, flowers and symbols, is an exotic pheasant and another bird, standing amid flowers and foliage.
Sticks: Genre scenes picked out in gold with pierced striations in the background.
Guards: Genre scenes picked out in gold.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund
Method of acquisition: Given (1985-01-28) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1850
CE
-
Circa
1860
CE
Chinese for the expot market, possibly Iberia.
Leaf
composed of
watercolours
silk
gouache
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Guards
Length 27.9 cm
Sticks
Accession number: M.365-1985
Primary reference Number: 117949
Old catalogue number: DR 11/166
Old object number: 310
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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