Current Location: In storage
Titles
Brisé fan
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
(Possibly)
Entities
Categories
Description
Brisé fan with a hand-painted floral decoration of roses, pansies, and daisies. Horn sticks.
With original box.
Notes
History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 212
Legal notes
Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2015-04-27)
by
H.M. Government
Dating
Production date:
circa
AD 1810
Note
This fan forms part of the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015. The collection of over 600 fans ranges in date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and in type from bejewelled and hand-painted court and wedding fans, to printed mass-produced advertising fans, aide-memoire fans, mourning fans and children’s fans.
Typical of the Regency period, this small brisé fan was designed in response to the narrower, high-waisted dresses that were then fashionable. With no voluminous pockets beneath for tucking away large fans, smaller-scale fans could be slipped into fashionable smaller handbags. In the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, fans were frequently made from bone and horn, which was considerably cheaper and easier to obtain than ivory and tortoiseshell.
Components of the work
Sticks
composed of
horn
Techniques used in production
Painted
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.99 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 204662
Sale number: 212
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 23 July 2015
Updated: Tuesday 26 October 2021
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
