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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1660 - circa 1700; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, painting, Double leaf of chickenskin, painted in bodycolour. Sticks and guards of ivory (20+2), shaped, painted, gilt, and overlaid with pierced mother-of-pearl, that on the guards backed with gold foil. Rivet set with clear pastes; 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.325-1985]
Description: Double leaf of chickenskin, painted in bodycolour. Sticks and guards of ivory (20+2), shaped, painted, gilt, and overlaid with pierced mother-of-pearl, that on the guards backed with gold foil. Rivet set with clear pastes. Front: Painted overall with the Judgement of Paris after ? Pietro da Cortona ? derived from the engraving by marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael?. The left, top and bottom edges have black borders decorated with gilt scrolls. Reverse: Painted overall with a landscape featuring a group of Italian farm buildings. Gold and green lines on the edges. Sticks: In the centre, a cartouche painted with Perseus and Andromeda, flanked by irregular cartouches containing a gentleman and a lady respectively, reserved in a pierced mother-of-pearl ground. On the back, a central cartouche painted en camaieu in purple with a landscape, flanked by smaller cartouches painted en camaieu in blue with landscapes. Between the cartouches there are coloured trophies and flowers.Guards: Scrolls and flowers, the latter coloured. | 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=2nd half 17th Century; start=1660; end=1700 | 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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