Maker: Unknown
The stick: ivory carved and partly stained orange/pink; bottom mount, front: painted ivory openwork on silk; back: polychrome silks embroidered on silk. Centre stick: brocade covered; top mount; corroded low quality silver. Rim: rusted iron wire, covered in blue cloth. Face: silk with polychrome silk embroidery. Decorated with a stork and a fruiting peach tree; the applied mount with bird and pinks (?); the stick with scrolling grotesques.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Width: 29.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
After
1770
-
Before
1830
Face
composed of
silk thread
( polychrome)
silk
Stick
composed of
ivory
Rim
composed of
brocade
Guards
Height 46.4 cm
Stick+face
Accession number: O.30-1985
Primary reference Number: 118440
Old object number: 414
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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