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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1770; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, painting, Folding fan, double paper leaf, painted in bodycolour. Sticks of pierced, carved and painted ivory, guards of carved and painted ivory (20+2) rivet of brass and washer of mother-of-pearl.; 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.273-1985]
Description: Folding fan, double paper leaf, painted in bodycolour. Sticks of pierced, carved and painted ivory, guards of carved and painted ivory (20+2) rivet of brass and washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: A woman on the left is carrying a basket and is watching fishermen in a bay. One is standing in his boat holding a net; further in the background there are two more boats, one under sail. Trees and a building on the left flank the scene. In the background there is the sea and sailing ships; on one side of the bay there are a few houses on the right. The top edging is of gold foil. Back: a central landscape with a tree, buildings and a fence. Sticks: the central cartouche shows a dancing couple flanked by two half cartouches with baskets of fruit. Below, under two rows of patterns, a column in the centre, a man is fishing between a tree, two shells on the left, and a fountain in the shape of a dolphin, with a fox and a crane by a well on the right. The lower part of the sticks is cut to resemble a column with zigzags above and below. When the fan is closed the sticks and guards form an interesting relief pattern. Guards: both guards are decorated in a similar way with a tulip and a bud on crosshatching on the shoulder and a dancing man in the middle of the guard proper with foliage on the bottom, and foliage and a jumping deer on the top. | 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=3rd quarter 18th Century; start=1770; end=1770 | 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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