Elegant Company Playing Cards
Maker: Unknown
Folding fan with an 'assemblee de la noblesse die gessellschaft des adels'.
Hand coloured engraving on wooden sticks, the upper guard with bone edge.
History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 2014
Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2015-04-27) by H.M. Government
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Sticks
composed of
wood
Upper Guards
composed of
bone
Leaf
Accession number: M.440-2015
Primary reference Number: 205019
Sale number: 2014
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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