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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): after 1770 - before 1830; Classification(s): fans, screen fan, carving, The stick: ivory carved and partly stained orange/pink; bottom mount, front: painted ivory openwork on silk; back: polychrome silks embroidered on silk. Centre stick: brocade covered; top mount; corroded low quality silver. Rim: rusted iron wire, covered in blue cloth. Face: silk with polychrome silk embroidery.; 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 [O.30-1985]
Description: The stick: ivory carved and partly stained orange/pink; bottom mount, front: painted ivory openwork on silk; back: polychrome silks embroidered on silk. Centre stick: brocade covered; top mount; corroded low quality silver. Rim: rusted iron wire, covered in blue cloth. Face: silk with polychrome silk embroidery. Decorated with a stork and a fruiting peach tree; the applied mount with bird and pinks (?); the stick with scrolling grotesques. | 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 screen fan | Temporal: | name=late 18th to early 19th century; start=1770; 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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