Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, maker, Italy
Collection:
Messel-Rosse Collection
Category:
fans
Name:
folding fan
Date:
1720 — 1740
Period:
18th century
Description:
Folding fan of double paper, with three blue cartouches, depicting two ladies and a gentleman. Sticks of shaped and pierced ivory, guards of ivory strengthened with mother-of-pearl.
Technique(s):
forming; sticks
piercing; sticks
Material(s):
paper; leaf
ivory; sticks, guards
mother-of-pearl; guards; to strengthen
Dimension(s):
length, guards, 29.0, cm
width
Acquisition:
bought; 1985-01-28; Countess of Rosse, Anne
Provenance:
Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Associated
Person(s):
Messel, Leonard; owner
Countess of Rosse, Anne; owner
Acquisition Credit:
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Alternative
Number:
old catalogue number; DR 30/395; Messel-Rosse Collection; 1985
Accession:
Object Number: M.33-1985
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 117619; input: 2004-12-07; modified: 2016-08-11)
Permanent
Identifier:
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