Current Location: In storage
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Maker:
Unknown
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Description
Folding fan, double paper leaf, printed and coloured with watercolour, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Sticks of fretted horn decorated with steel sequins; guards of fretted horn decorated with steel sequins. Rivet of steel; washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: Cupid in a hillscape; back: a garden scene.
Folding fan, double paper leaf, printed and coloured with watercolour, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Sticks of fretted horn decorated with steel sequins; guards of fretted horn decorated with steel sequins. Rivet of steel; washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: On a hill, a cupid is lying on a vehicle with doves, flowers and orange drapery which is torn by two boys, one carrying an arrow with a flaming heart, the other carrying a houlette with a hat. a woman is standing on the right and another woman is coming up the hill; on the left a winged boy is leading the way with a torch and a flag with a flaming heart, crossed by two arrows attached to a long arrow. There are buildings and trees on either side in the background; the left building is in classical style. Top, left and right borders are of gold foliage with pink roses and semicircles with half flowers; the lower border is of a thin, wavy gold line and the top edging is of gold foil. Back: a small scene in the centre entitled 'La Belle Jardinière' shows a man and a woman in contemporary dress working in a garden; he is raking, she is watering flowers. On the right and on the left there are sprays of gold flowers. The top left and right borders are decorated with gold patterns and leaves, and pink flowers. Sticks: the sticks are pierced with plants and have rows of sequins in the middle and on top. Reverse: blue painted dots instead of sequins. Guards: there is a row of seven sequins on the shoulder and at the guard proper groups of sequins alternate with plants.
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
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Sticks+guards
composed of
sequins
( steel)
horn
Leaf
composed of
paper
watercolour
bodycolour
gilt
Guards
Length 21.2 cm
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.315-1985
Primary reference Number: 117900
Old catalogue number: DR 20/257
Old object number: 358
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
