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Folding fan: MAR.M.246-1912

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

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Description

Folding fan, chicken skin leaf, depicting the 'Exploits of Alexander the great', freely painted in gouache; the heavily carved mother-of-pearl sticks (with goldfish background and gilded) echo the design on the leaf, showing among others Alexander's soldiers, tents and trophies of war. The button is of white paste and there is a tubular rivet.

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Width: 52 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Note

French or Dutch?

School or Style

Neoclassical

Components of the work

Leaf composed of chicken skin gouache
Sticks composed of mother-of-pearl
Guards Length 27.5 cm

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.M.246-1912
Primary reference Number: 118062
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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