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Fan with landscape scene: M.155-2015

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)

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Fan with landscape scene

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

Chinoiserie folding fan, depicting four women in a landscape.
Paper leaf with hand coloured etching and elaborate gold decoration. On ivory sticks and guards, hand painted and gilded with chinoiserie.

Notes

History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 289

Legal notes

Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2015-04-27) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1750

Note

The leaf is a hand-coloured etching with a Chinese-inspired scene. This imagery was popular across the decorative arts in mid-18th century Europe, and appeared on porcelain vases and teapots, lacquered screens and wallpaper. The fan is made more luxurious as gold leaf has been applied to the paper as well as to the sticks and guards. It was clearly well used and loved: it has old tears and old repairs.

This fan forms part of the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015. The collection of over 600 fans ranges in date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and in type from bejewelled and hand-painted court and wedding fans, to printed mass-produced advertising fans, aide-memoire fans, mourning fans and children’s fans.

School or Style

Chinoiserie

Components of the work

Leaf composed of paper gilt
Sticks composed of ivory
Sticks, Guards

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Identification numbers

Accession number: M.155-2015
Primary reference Number: 204720
Sale number: 289
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Audit data

Created: Friday 24 July 2015 Updated: Tuesday 19 October 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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