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Description: | A folding fan with bone guard sticks and ivory sticks, and an over painted printed paper mount. The front image is a scene in the countryside with Mars talking to Venus, with two swans behind her seat, with Cupid? in disguise leading a dog on a lead. The reverse has a shepherd playing his pipe, seated under some trees, with sheep and a town beneath a rocky mountain landscape. Guardsticks inlaid with mica, 1790 to 1800.
Aspect: sex, Description: f
Aspect: age, Description: adult
Part: surface treatment (mount), Aspect: type, Description: painted & watercolour (?)
Part: surface treatment (mount), Aspect: type, Description: printed
Part: surface treatment (mount), Aspect: type, Description: gilded
Part: trimming, Aspect: type, Description: rivet
Part: trimming, Aspect: type, Description: stud
Material: organic, bone, ivory
Part: mount, Material: paper
Part: sticks, Material: organic, bone, ivory
Part: guardsticks, Material: organic, bone
Part: trimming (rivet), Material: metal, copper, bronze
Part: trimming (stud), Material: organic, mother of pearl
Colour: polychrome | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.costume&textiles.259852 | Go to resource |
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