Current Location: In storage
Titles
Fan with Costumes Suisse
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Maker:
Kaiser, L.
Entities
Categories
Description
Palmette fean mounted on bone sticks and guards, with printed card leaves, each stick bearing the name of a canton and its regional costume. In original box with the trade label of L. Kaiser, Lucerne.
Notes
History note: The Lennox Boyd Collection. Christies no. 86
Legal notes
Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from The Lennox Boyd Estate
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(2015-04-27)
by
H.M. Government
Dating
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1853
Note
Palmette fans are folding fans with individual leaves attached to each stick, held together with a thread. In this example, each palmette is decorated with the name of a particular Swiss canton (district) and its regional costume. While possibly made for the tourist market, given its date of manufacture it could equally have been made for a patriotic Swiss national: in 1848, Switzerland became a federal state of 26 relatively autonomous cantons.
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
Swiss
Components of the work
Sticks, Guards
composed of
bone
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.78 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 206718
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 20 August 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
