Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
uncertain
Entities
Categories
Description
Brisé fan, pierced ivory sticks and carved ivory guards (19+2) mounted with white goose feathers tipped with marabou, and painted in polychrome body colour: shades of green, blue, purple, shades of pink, shades of brown, grey and black. Gilt-metal carrying loop ornamented with a red silk knot attached by a pale green silk cord. The sticks and guards are decorated with figures, buildings and plants. The front of the feather mount is decorated with two quail standing on either side of a small prunus tree and a rock, flanked by flowering plants and foliage. On the back there is a small arrangement of flowers and foliage in the centre. The fan is accompanied by a fragment from the end of its pasteboard boz covered with pale blue brocade and painted with a floral spray (A).
Notes
History note: Unknown before donor
Legal notes
Given by Professor J. Nias
Measurements and weight
Width: 53 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1994-04-25)
by
Nias, J., Professor
Dating
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1820
CE
-
Circa
1830
CE
Components of the work
Guards
composed of
feathers
( goose+marabou)
bodycolour
( shades of green, blue, purple, shades of pink, shades of brown, grey and black)
Height 27.5 cm
Knot+cord
composed of
silk
( red+pale green)
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Sticks
Identification numbers
Accession number: O.1 & A-1994
Primary reference Number: 125148
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
