Maker: Unknown
Face: bamboo sheath, engraved with hot needle, the edge bound in blue silk. Stick; tortoiseshell, pierced, engraved and pricked over red, pink, beige and yellow cotton. Decorated face with a figure of a girl carrying a screen fan, walking down a hill past rocks and plantains (?); Stick: ruyi form with a peony flower.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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: 21.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century
After
1801
-
Before
1900
Face
composed of
silk
( blue)
bamboo
Stick
composed of
tortoise shell
Guards
Height 43.8 cm
Accession number: O.36-1985
Primary reference Number: 118447
Old object number: 477
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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