Current Location: In storage
Titles
Giant folding fan with Aurora in her chariot
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Giant folding fan with Aurora in her chariot. Paper leaf, printed in colours and hand-coloured with elaborately decorated reserves, the reverse with 'silvered' paper; pierced and fretted bone sticks and mother-of-pearl guards with silver inlay and hand-painted decoration.
Notes
History note: From the Collection of Martin Willcocks.
Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 384
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
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1830
Note
The image of Aurora is derived from the same etching as an unmounted fan leaf in the collection (P.158-2015) but this one has been mounted on bone sticks and mother-of-pearl guards. With its elaborate decoration and reverse in ‘silvered’ paper, it was most likely made for the Spanish market. Journals of this time record women carrying large fans measuring around 30 cm. At 40 cm, this fan is unusually large.
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.
Components of the work
Leaf
composed of
paper
Sticks
composed of
bone
Guards
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.343-2015
Primary reference Number: 204913
Sale number: 384
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 30 July 2015
Updated: Tuesday 26 October 2021
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
