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Description: | Artist: uncertain; Date(s): circa 1820 - circa 1830; Classification(s): fans, brisé fan, piercing, Brisé fan, pierced ivory sticks and carved ivory guards (19+2) mounted with white goose feathers tipped with marabou, and painted in polychrome body colour: shades of green, blue, purple, shades of pink, shades of brown, grey and black. Gilt-metal carrying loop ornamented with a red silk knot attached by a pale green silk cord.; Acquisition: given by Nias, J., Professor, Given by Professor J. Nias [O.1 & A-1994]
Description: Brisé fan, pierced ivory sticks and carved ivory guards (19+2) mounted with white goose feathers tipped with marabou, and painted in polychrome body colour: shades of green, blue, purple, shades of pink, shades of brown, grey and black. Gilt-metal carrying loop ornamented with a red silk knot attached by a pale green silk cord. The sticks and guards are decorated with figures, buildings and plants. The front of the feather mount is decorated with two quail standing on either side of a small prunus tree and a rock, flanked by flowering plants and foliage. On the back there is a small arrangement of flowers and foliage in the centre. The fan is accompanied by a fragment from the end of its pasteboard boz covered with pale blue brocade and painted with a floral spray (A). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | uncertain brisé fan fans | Temporal: | name=early 19th Century; start=1820; end=1830 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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