Brisé fan: M.106-1985

Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)

Maker(s)

Entities

Brisé fan

Description

Brisé fan, sticks and guards of pierced, fretted and painted in body colour bone; thumb guard of mother-of-pearl (28+2) white ribbon; iron rivet and mother-of-pearl washers. Front: the fan is decorated in three zones, the middle of which has three similar cartouches on a background of finely cut flowers and foliage with painted blossoms. The cartouches are of two blue wavy scrolls bordered with a gold line supporting a lilac pedestal; above two roses are worked in a gold medallion. Three gold lilies crown the cartouche. The zone on top, bordered by the ribbon, has three wavy blue and gold double scrolls on a similar background, each directly above a cartouche and with two roses in the middle. The bottom row is of a regular pattern. The top border is of gold dots between gold lines. The lower border is of a lilac line, the left edging of a blue line. Back: undecorated. Guards flowers and foliage bordered by a blue line.

Notes

History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)

Legal notes

Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne

Dating

19th Century, Early#
Louis XVIII or Charles X
Circa 1820 - Circa 1830

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Ribbon composed of silk ( probably)
Sticks+guards composed of bodycolour bone
Rivet composed of iron
Washers+thumbguard composed of mother-of-pearl
Guards Length 22.2 cm