Maker: Unknown
Folding fan of double paper. Painted with a couple and a boy with a basket of flowers on his head, in a landscape.
Sticks and guards of carved, pierced and painted ivory, the latter backed with mother-of-pearl.
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 1770
European, possibly Dutch
Guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Length 28.0 cm
Sticks, Guards
composed of
ivory
Accession number: M.352-1985
Primary reference Number: 117937
Old catalogue number: DR 28/365
Old object number: 395
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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