IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 204743 accession number: M.178-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 27 July 2015 updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, with a mythological scene of a metamorphosis. Depicting a man with a bow pursuing a girl, from whose fingertips sprout branches with two putti in clouds. To the right, a river god reclines in rushes and a putti flies off through trees. Paper leaf with hand coloured stipple on carved and fretted sticks, with gold and silver decoration. Slightly earlier French sticks title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 326 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Lennox Boyd creditline: Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204743 CATEGORIES ------ category: fan DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown