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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1805 - circa 1810; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, weaving, Folding fan, double white silk leaf painted in bodycolour with applied painted paper and decorated with 'gold' and 'silver' sequins, stamped gold foil steel spangles and fabric. Sticks of fretted and pierced bone decorated with gold foil and steel sequins; guards of fretted and pierced bone decorated with gold foil and steel sequins (16+2). Brass rivet and mother-of-pearl washer.; Acquisition: bought by Anne, Countess of Rosse, 1985-01-28, Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [M.324-1985]
Description: Folding fan, double white silk leaf painted in bodycolour with applied painted paper and decorated with 'gold' and 'silver' sequins, stamped gold foil steel spangles and fabric. Sticks of fretted and pierced bone decorated with gold foil and steel sequins; guards of fretted and pierced bone decorated with gold foil and steel sequins (16+2). Brass rivet and mother-of-pearl washer. Front: in the centre, a young woman is dancing with a garland of flowers in her hands; her upper body is of applied steel sequins and she is in a green garden with trees and bushes. Behind the girl is a spray of stamped gold leaves. The scene is flanked by palm trees made of sequins, stamped leaves and steel stars. The top border is of a row of striped gold flowers between two rows of golden sequins; above the girl five bells are hanging between two sequin pyramids hanging from the border. Further left two hanging rows of gold sequins with steel stars; only one on the right hand side. There are sequins on the left and lower border; the top edging is of a gold foil. Back: undecorated. Sticks: fretted row of s-shaped and twigs under a row of swags bordering pierced holes and a row with applied sequins on top. Guards: both guards are decorated in the same way with pierced hole patterns and fretted twigs bordered by foil lines. | 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: | fans folding fan Unknown | Temporal: | name=early 19th Century; start=1805; end=1810 | 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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