English trompe l'oeil folding fan

Folding Fan. Trompe l'oeil fan. Unidentified maker. Front: Painted overall with a trompe l'oeil design comprising from left to right: a leg of ham on a dish; a dog; part of a book; a print, painted en grisaille with a man playing bagpipes to the music of which a woman is dancing and playing castanets, signed 'Jno Faber fecit 1757'; a framed, coloured landscape in which a woman is dancing to the music of a violin played by a man seated under a tree; an open book inscribed DONN QUICKSOTT; a watch inscribed '-(J)EWELL' and 'LONDON'; a coloured picture of a man and woman playing draughts in a panelled room; two books and the sound box end of a lute. The edges have borders of gold vine. Reverse: Painted in blue, yellow, black and brown, three closed books, an open book of music, a sheet of music and a flute, surrounded by scrolls. Sticks: The lower part of each stick is shaped, the upper part is straight and tapering and pierced by simple geometrical and plant motifs. Where the shaping ends there is a band of gilt plant ornament. Single leaf of skin? painted in gouache and gilt. Sticks of bone, shaped, pierced and gilt; guards of pierced, carved and gilt bone (21+2). Rivet set with garnet pastes, length, guards, 25.7 cm, 1757. English.

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• Accession Number: M.205-1985
• Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Aperture: f/32.0
• Focal length: 80
• Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
• Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
• Image height: 568 pixels
• Image width: 1024 pixels
• Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
• Filesize: 196.46kB
• Exposure time: 1/125
• ISO Speed: 100
• Fnumber: 32/1

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