Brisé fan: M.376-1985

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Brisé fan

Categories

Fans

Description

Wooden brisé fan with black lacquered sticks and guards. The front shows a painted scene of musicians and spectators in traditional chinese dress. The reverse is decorated, in gold lacquer, with a repeating tortoiseshell motif, surrounding a central landscape scene: the scene shows a riverbank with a fisherman on one bank, watched by another figure on the opposite bank; behind them are several buildings, including a pagoda and a bridge across the river with a figure on the bridge.
The sticks and guards (22+2) are also decorated with repeating motifs, painted in gold lacquer. Red, silk ribbon and metal rivet.

Notes

History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-92)

Legal notes

Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1790

Note

Cantonese, for the export market.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Ribbon composed of silk ( red)
Rivet composed of metal
Guards Height 22.8 cm

Materials used in production

Wood
Lacquer
Paint

Techniques used in production

Painting
Lacquering

References and bibliographic entries

Fans of Imperial China page(s): 108-118

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.376-1985
Primary reference Number: 117960
Old catalogue number: DR 12/178
Old object number: 305
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

Cite this record

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Brisé fan" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117960 Accessed: 2024-04-19 11:35:03

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117960
            |title=Brisé fan
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-19 11:35:03|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-117960

Machine readable data

JSON Linked Art XML TXT QR code

More objects and works of art you might like

An image of Islamic

Islamic

Accession Number: CM.3322-1950

An image of Fan

Fan

Accession Number: O.69-1946

An image of Folding fan

Perpetual Almanack

Accession Number: M.275-2015

An image of Pfennig

Pfennig

Accession Number: CM.PG.5058-2006

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

Featured image for the project: Japanese Blossoms - Notecard pack

Japanese Blossoms - Notecard pack

£6.00

Featured image for the project: Henslow's Tayloria - Tea towel

Henslow's Tayloria - Tea towel

£9.00

Featured image for the project: Cambridge 800 by Quentin Blake - Tea towel

Cambridge 800 by Quentin Blake - Tea towel

£10.00

Featured image for the project: Notecard pack - Japanese Woodcuts

Notecard pack - Japanese Woodcuts

£6.00

You might be interested in this...

Featured image for the project: Fan prints: examples

Fan prints: examples

Featured image for the project: Folding fan, known as the Messel Mica Fan

Folding fan, known as the Messel Mica Fan

Featured image for the project: Unfolding the Lennox-Boyd Fan Collection, Part 2

Unfolding the Lennox-Boyd Fan Collection, Part 2

Featured image for the project: Fan design: garden under snow, 1885

Fan design: garden under snow, 1885

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...