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Maker/s | Unknown (maker) |
Collection | |
Category |
fans |
Name |
brisé fan |
Description | Brisé fan, Ivory sticks and guards with shaped ends, pierced, painted in bodycolour and appliquéd with feathers and painted fabric (25+2). Cream silk ribbon. Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. Front: painted below the ribbon with a continuous spray of leaves with tiny red flowers, with two rows of piercing above and below. Above the ribbon a wide border of butterflies and birds amidst roses, other flowers, foliage and fruit is painted; the birds and the two butterflies are appliquéd with feathers and painted fabric; the other two butterflies and the flowers heads are appliquéd with painted fabric. Reverse: undecorated. |
Production Place | Netherlands (maker) (country) Dutch (maker) (nationality) |
Technique Description | Brisé fan, Ivory sticks and guards with shaped ends, pierced, painted in bodycolour and appliquéd with feathers and painted fabric (25+2). Cream silk ribbon. Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. |
Dimensions |
length: (guards): 17.0
cm |
Period | late 18th-early 19th century |
Date | circa 1790 to 1810 |
Provenance | bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum |
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Other Notes | |
Accession Number | M.109-1985 (Applied Arts) |
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