Production: Unknown
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.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Width: 52 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
French or Dutch?
Leaf
composed of
chicken skin
gouache
Sticks
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Guards
Length 27.5 cm
Accession number: MAR.M.246-1912
Primary reference Number: 118062
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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