Maker: Unknown
Brisé fan, sticks and guards of pierced wood (26+2), decorated in the centre with an applied oval stipple print of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, flanked by smaller, circular stipple prints of Louis XVI inscribed 'Vive Louis XVI Perre Des Françaiset Roi dun Peuple Libre', and the Marquis de Lafayette, inscribed ' Le Ms de Lafayette'. Blue and pink ribboning; steel rivet with bone washers.
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
Louis XVI
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
: French Revolution
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( probably)
Sticks+guards
composed of
wood
ink
Washers
composed of
bone
Rivet
composed of
steel
Guards
Length 27.4 cm
Accession number: M.291-1985
Primary reference Number: 117876
Old catalogue number: DR 8/142
Old object number: 334
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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