Maker: Unknown
Folding fan, cream gauze, single leaf, decorated with pierced and frosted stamped gilt-metal paillettes imitating filigree (22), and cut steel cornflower sprays attached by black thread; gold binding on the upper edge. Sticks and guards of pierced and gilt copper or brass (12+2) nail rivet with blue-black washers. The gold panels, each overlaid by a cut steel, are arranged as a border at the top of the leaf; the rest of the cut steels are arranged in vertical rows of three between sticks. The reverse is undecorated.
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
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
: Small sprigs of flowers werer fashionable as porcelain decoration and on lace and textiles during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Panels
composed of
metal
( gilt)
steel
Sticks+guards
composed of
copper or brass
Leaf
composed of
gauze
Guards
Length 16.1 cm
Panels+sticks+guards
Accession number: M.197-1985
Primary reference Number: 117782
Old catalogue number: DR 6/114
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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