Love's Arrows, ivory lorgnette fan

An image of Brisé fan. Lorgnette fan. Love's Arrows. Unknown maker, France. Ivory sticks and guards in the form of arrows with circular cut steel framed peepholes in the flights, and circular eyeglass in both guards (19+2). Decorated with engraving to resemble feathers, covered with silver foil. A cream silk ribbon is threaded through a row of slits below the peepholes. Steel washers to the rivets. Reverse is undecorated. Ivory, pierced, engraved and covered with silver foil, and applied with cut steel circles, and two stell-rimmed eye glasses, and two steel washers to the rivet, length, guards, 14.1 cm, width, whole, 25.5 cm, circa 1790. Louis XVI. Acquisition Credit: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Brisé fan. Lorgnette fan. Love's Arrows. Unknown maker, France. Ivory sticks and guards in the form of arrows with circular cut steel framed peepholes in the flights, and circular eyeglass in both guards (19+2). Decorated with engraving to resemble feathers, covered with silver foil. A cream silk ribbon is threaded through a row of slits below the peepholes. Steel washers to the rivets. Reverse is undecorated. Ivory, pierced, engraved and covered with silver foil, and applied with cut steel circles, and two stell-rimmed eye glasses, and two steel washers to the rivet, length, guards, 14.1 cm, width, whole, 25.5 cm, circa 1790. Louis XVI. Acquisition Credit: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Accession Number: M.119-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Image Library
Image height: 658 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
Filesize: 165.03kB

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