Maker: Unknown
Brisé fan, sticks and guards of machine cut horn, painted in bodycolour (20+2) Ribbon of cream coloured silk. Iron rivet and washers. Front: five heart shaped medallions are surrounded by sprays of flowers; from left to right the fan depicts a man standing between trees, a classical ruin with columns and a tree, an arch, two people and a tree, a house and a tree and lastly a tree. Below this there is a blue flower on each stick and fine scrolling gold foliage and below, sits a row of small flowers. Over the ribbon there are flowers in scrolling gold leaves and there is a row of flowers on the bottom. Back: undecorated. Guards: Slightly scrolling foliage.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Width: 28.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1810
CE
-
Circa
1815
CE
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( cream)
Sticks+guards
composed of
bodycolour
horn
Rivet+washers
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 15.4 cm
Accession number: M.73-1985
Primary reference Number: 117659
Old catalogue number: DR 3/37
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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