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Love's Arrows | |
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Title/s | Love's Arrows |
Maker/s | Unknown (maker) |
Collection | |
Category |
fans |
Name |
brisé fan |
Description | Ivory sticks and guards in the form of arrows with circular cut steel framed peepholes in the flights, and circular eyeglass in both guards (19+2). Decorated with engraving to resemble feathers, covered with silver foil. A cream silk ribbon is threaded through a row of slits below the peepholes. Steel washers to the rivets. Reverse is undecorated. |
Production Place | France (maker) (country) French (maker) (nationality) |
Technique Description | ivory, pierced, engraved and covered with silver foil, and applied with cut steel circles, and two stell-rimmed eye glasses, and two steel washers to the rivet |
Dimensions |
length: (guards): 14.1
cm |
Period | late 18th century |
Date | circa 1790 |
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.119-1985 (Applied Arts) |
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