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Pastoral and Chinese Scene
Maker: Unknown
Folding fan depicting, on the obverse, a central pastoral scene of a seated European courting couple, watched by two men, set against a European-style landscape, the whole flanked by oriental motifs and figures within oriental landscapes. The reverse is plain. The sticks are painted on the obverse with a chinoiserie scene of two figures in a landscape; the guards painted with floral motifs. Paper leaf decorated on one side with hand-coloured etching, the top edge reinforced with an adhered narrow plain paper border, on shaped, painted, and varnished elephant ivory sticks and guards. The edges of the sticks are carved to form a decorative pattern of alternating lines and zig-zags when closed. The sticks are united by a yellow metal (brass?) rivet with domed flat-topped ends separated from the sticks by two circular mother-of-pearl spacers.
It is unusual for fan leaves to mix European and chinoiserie motifs
History note: Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 972
Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate
Method of acquisition: Allocated (2015-04-27) by H.M. Government
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
Leaf
composed of
paper
Sticks
composed of
bone
Sticks, Guards
Accession number: M.258-2015
Primary reference Number: 204825
Sale number: 972
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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