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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1840; Classification(s): fans, bris? fan, lacquering, Wood sticks and guards with rounded ends, lacquered black and decorated in red, silver and two shades of gold lacquer. (21 originally 22 + 2). Brown silk ribbon. Brass ? rivet and washers.; 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.381-1985]
Description: Wood sticks and guards with rounded ends, lacquered black and decorated in red, silver and two shades of gold lacquer. (21 originally 22 + 2). Brown silk ribbon. Brass ? rivet and washers.
Front: In a fan-shaped panel with paired leaf borders, a Chinese genre scene of men and women in a garden. Below the shoulder, there is a floral design and above the ribbon
a bird on each stick and the guards.
Back: Similar but a different genre scene in which two boats approach an island.
Guards: The fronts have a central area dotted in red. | 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 Unknown bris? fan | 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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