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Maker: Unknown
Applied Faces screen fan. Decorated, obverse: with fan and gift-bearing figures in a courtyard garden; reverse: with six Chinese ladies seated in front of a bookcase with vases containing flowering lotus, a coral branch, scrolls and a peacock feather; stick: with figures and foliage patterns. Stick and rim, reverse: wood and cane, painted in gold on black lacquer. String and tassels: green and crimson silk with milk-glass beads. Rim: obverse: brocade covered. Face: coarse silk, painted in opaque watercolours with applied painted ivory, silk and paper.
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: 25.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1820
CE
-
Circa
1860
CE
Face
composed of
paper
watercolours
silk
ivory
Stick
composed of
cane
Guards
Height 40.3 cm
String+tassels
Accession number: O.68-1985
Primary reference Number: 118458
Old object number: 461
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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