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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Classification(s): fans, folding fan, painting, chicken skin leaf, painted in gouache; carved mother-of-pearl sticks . The button is of white paste and there is a tubular rivet.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.M.246-1912]
Description: Folding fan, chicken skin leaf, depicting the 'Exploits of Alexander the great', freely painted in gouache; the heavily carved mother-of-pearl sticks (with goldfish background and gilded) echo the design on the leaf, showing among others Alexander's soldiers, tents and trophies of war. The button is of white paste and there is a tubular rivet. | 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 | 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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