IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118060 accession number: MAR.M.244-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf, painted in watercolour and bodycolour with chinoiserie decoration. Sticks carved and pierced ivory; guards carved ivory (20+2). Rivet of brass and washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: Three cartouches. In the centre, a garden scene with Chinese women and playing children; a child behind a rock, a woman leaning on a tree, a woman walking holding a long stick, playing children and two woman behind a table. The foreground is brown with two rocks, a bird and little bushes bordering the garden. Left in the background, a wooden building; in the left, triangular shaped cartouche, a tree in blossom growing on a rock with two birds sitting on it surrounded by flowers. In the right cartouche, a man riding a buffalo, wearing a flower and probably carrying a fan, a child following him and a woman holding a floral spray and a child. The left cartouche is bordered by leaves and berries, the central cartouche by a scrolling green stem and the right one by a thin brown line. Empty spaces are sprinkled with flowers and leaves painted in gold and a curved handle with leaves on the right. Top edging of a thin paper ribbon. Back: two bunches with flowers, berries and a bird on a white background set asymmetrically in the left half of the leaf. Sticks: In a cartouche in the middle, a couple in European dress sitting in a Chinese garden with a Chinese hut on the left and a child playing with a dog in front of a classical temple on the right. Background carved with striations. Slightly scrolling foliage on both sides of the cartouche, each flanked by Chinese couples in front of a hut. Guards: Both guards are decorated in a similar way: a flower on the bottom, a vase of flowers, a single flower, a pierced trellis, a standing Chinese figure, striations and flowers. object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf, painted in watercolour and bodycolour with chinoiserie decoration. Sticks carved and pierced ivory; guards carved ivory (20+2). Rivet of brass and washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: Three cartouches including a garden scene with Chinese women and playing children, a man riding a buffalo. Back: bunches with flowers, berries and a bird on a white background. title: folding fan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118060 CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 51