IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118048 accession number: M.9-1908 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 19 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double silk leaf, painted in bodycolour with a European scene and chinoiseries decorated with applied coloured sequins and laid silver-gilt and silver threads. Sticks pierced and cut ivory with silver and gold encrustations. Guards carved ivory with silver encrustations backed with foil (12+2). Rivet and washer of brass; probably replaced in the 19th century. Front: probably a marriage fan with a couple in contemporary dress in the centre standing in a garden in front of a pedestal. Two differently decorated columns flank them on a ground, which is also decorated with sequins. Above the couple, a star of paint and purple sequins, slightly scrolling chains of sequins and a little Chinese-style pavilion of silver thread; beside the right column, a vase of flowers worked in silver thread. On the left, flanked by two decorated columns a chinoiserie with two very small figures on a tree-stepped round pedestal. Above a hovering Chinese roof and on the left a little building; on the right a chinoiserie with a man sitting on the ground flying a kite and another one standing in a pavilion. Painted plants decorated with gold thread and sequins. A double line wrapped with leaves runs round the left top and right sides and there is a single gold-red line at the bottom. Back: Undecorated. Sticks: From the guards to the middle the sticks are decorated symmetrically. The first three sticks form and oval medallion with a pierced star in the middle, the other sticks have semicircles on a base; the fourth stick has a chain of rhombuses between two lines and the fifth stick has a zigzag line between two straight lines. The two sticks in the centre show a floral sprig, a mandolin and a flute on a background of pierced striations, and a bow and floral spray. The reverse is undecorated. Guards: both guards are decorated in a similar way: a single profiled line on the shoulder. The guard proper is divided into fields: four circles on the bottom, two sprays of flowers, a mandolin, an open book, and a stick with a ribbon on a background of pierced striations, inlaid with foil and decorated with dots in the corners; on top, semicircles above a clover leaf flanked by pipes dangling from bows. object type: Folding fan, double silk leaf, painted in bodycolour with a European scene and chinoiseries decorated with applied coloured sequins and laid silver-gilt and silver threads. Sticks pierced and cut ivory with silver and gold encrustations. Guards carved ivory with silver encrustations backed with foil (12+2). Rivet and washer of brass; probably replaced in the 19th century. Front: marriage fan with a couple in a garden and chinoiseries; back:undecorated title: folding fan LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs T.T. Gurney STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118048 CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 51 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/160/large_M_9_1908_1_mas.jpg height: 665 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/160/mid_M_9_1908_1_mas.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.9-1908_1_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/160/preview_M_9_1908_1_mas.jpg height: 162 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/160/M_9_1908_1_mas.ptif height: 2335 pixels width: 3596 pixels