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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - circa 1810; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, weaving; 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.185-1985]
Description: Lavender silk, double leaf, with double cream net insertion, decorated with cream silk embroidery (satin stitch), gold sequins and frosted gilt metal paillettes (leaf shaped and seven petalled flower-shaped) silver binding on the upper edge. Bone sticks and guards, pierced and partly silvered. Rivet set with clear pastes. The leaf has a broad net insertion with a scalloped lower edge, bordered at the top by two rows of sequins, and at the bottom, by one. It is embroidered with four cream leaves on a wavy stem worked in sequins and leaf-shaped and seven petalled flower shape paillons. Below the insertion there are seven vertical lines each comprising two rows of flower heads alternating with two rows of sequins, with one row of each next to the guards. The sticks and guards are pierced by simple stylized plant motifs, and the latter are edged by silver-gilt foil. | 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=1800; 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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