Maker: Unknown
Brisé fan, pierced wooden sticks and guards decorated with three applied stipple prints (two small round, flanking a larger oval), inscribed: M. LE MS DE LA FAYETTE; Mr Bailly presentant au Roi les Clefs de la Ville de Paris; and M.LE DUC D'ORLEANS; blue silk ribbon.
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: 42.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date:
after
AD 1789
: French Revolution
Ribbon
composed of
silk
( blue)
Sticks+guards
composed of
wood
ink
Guards
Length 27.0 cm
Accession number: M.294-1985
Primary reference Number: 117879
Old object number: 337
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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