Current Location: Gallery 34 (Fan Gallery)
Titles
Fan with landscape scene
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
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
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.155-2015
Primary reference Number: 204720
Sale number: 289
Stable URI
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
