Maker: Unknown
Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in polychrome and gilt; sticks and guards of pierced, shaped, gilt and painted ivory. The latter carved and backed with mother-of-pearl; rivet with two cut red paste heads. The cream leaf is decorated with flowers, love trophies and scrolls, and with one large and two small shaped panels separated by two narrow rectangular panels. The central panel is decorated with two boys and two girls in a landscape, the right panel with a girl seated in a landscape, and the left panel with a boy seated in a landscape. The two rectangular panels are decorated with a small figure of a girl in a landscape, and a small figure of a man in a landscape. On the back there is a landscape with a border of stylized flowers and foliage on the left, top and right sides. The sticks are decorated with chinoiserie figures in panels with gilt edges. The sticks are carved with a Chinese figure and scrolls at the top and with flowers below.
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, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
The front is painted in Rococo style. The sticks and guards are decorated with chinoiserie figures and flowers. On the back is a landscape with borders of flowers and foliage. The whole fan is in exceptionally good condition.
Leaf
composed of
paper
gilt
paint
Guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Length 27 cm
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Accession number: M.298-1985
Primary reference Number: 117883
Old catalogue number: DR 21/269
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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