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Maker/s | Unknown (maker) |
Collection | |
Category |
fans |
Name |
folding fan |
School/Style | |
Description | Double leaf of cream net backed by gauze, decorated with frosted gilt-metal paillettes (pierced panels) overlaid by cut steel spangles of graduated size (bar, elliptical, two flower heads and panels). Sticks and guards of ivory (11+2), the former pierced and set with 'silver' spangles, the latter overlaid from the shoulder by gilt metal panels decorated with frosted gilt metal paillettes. Nail rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. The twenty-four paillettes are stitched to the leaf vertically; the cut steel spangles are stitched on in horizontal rows. |
Production Place | France, (maker) (country) () Italy (maker) (country) () French (maker) (nationality) () Italian (maker) (country) () |
Dimensions |
length: (guards): 16.0
cm |
Period | early 19th Century |
Date | circa 1800 |
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.198-1985 (Applied Arts) |
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