Maker: Unknown
Ivory sticks, pierced, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Ivory guards painted in bodycolour and gilt. (20+2) Gold stringing. Black rivet with green washers.
Front: Reserved in a pierced square trellis design, is a circular panel with a black frame, containing a Chinese family in a garden: a man with a dog and a woman holding a baby in her arms. On each side of the panel there are arrangements of flowers and fruit and a flying bird and insect. Above there is a red border with black floral ornament and below a green border with delicate black scroll ornament. The area below the shoulder is undecorated.
Reverse: The same design reversed.
Guards: Plain ivory decorated with a gold dragon and red bands above and below.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
17th Century, Late
Circa
1680
-
Circa
1720
Chinese for European market
Sticks+guards
composed of
bodycolour
gilt
ivory
Stringing
composed of
gold
Guards
Length 24.4 cm
Sticks
Accession number: M.86-1985
Primary reference Number: 117672
Old catalogue number: DR 28/180
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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