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Maker/s	Unknown (maker)
Collection	Messel-Rosse Collection
Category	fans
Name	folding fan
Description	Double paper leaf, painted in water-colours ? bodycolour and appliqued with coloured silk and painted ivory. Gold binding on upper edge. Sticks of pierced and carved ivory stained red and gilt. Guards of carved ivory, stained red and gilt. (14+2) Rivet set with clear pastes. Front: Within borders of fish, bats and symbols, forty men, women and children are arranged in groups inside and outside buildings. They have faces of applied painted ivory and clothes of silk. Reverse: Within borders of fish, bats, flowers and symbols, is an exotic pheasant and another bird, standing amid flowers and foliage. Sticks: Genre scenes picked out in gold with pierced striations in the background. Guards: Genre scenes picked out in gold.
Production Notes	Chinese for the expot market, possibly Iberia.
Production Place	Macao (maker) (place) () China (maker) (country) Chinese (maker) (nationality)
Technique Description	Double paper leaf, painted in water-colours ? gouache and appliqued with coloured silk and painted ivory. Gold binding on upper edge. Sticks of pierced and carved ivory stained red and gilt. Guards of carved ivory, stained red and gilt. (14+2) Rivet set with clear pastes.
Dimensions	length: (guards): 27.9 cm width:
Period	mid 19th century
Date	circa 1850 to 1860
Provenance	given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund
Documentation	Armstrong, Nancy (1985) Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection, Cambridge (Cambs.): Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises Ltd [comments: Publ. pl. 31] Irons, Neville John (1982) Fans of Imperial China, Hong Kong: Keiserrieich Kunst (Hong Kong) Limited [page: 180-1,188-9] Source title: The Oriental Art Series (1982) [comments: Cf. Illustrations and text of examples of Macau fans for the Iberian market.]
Other Notes
Accession Number	M.365-1985 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 117949; Input Date: 2004-12-07 / Last Edit: 2011-05-27)

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