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Fan

1674-1699 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath. This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and couched silver gilt thread edges the vignette. The thread is stitched in a foliage design among the flowers. There has been a gilt stencilled design at the borders but this has now worn. On the reverse is a stencilled all over pattern of formal red and blue tulips with a linking gilt foliage trail. The top border is of pink leather.

The sticks are of ivory, solid but with a serpentine edge. The guards have a pattern of incised diagonal lines. The pin is brass and there is a silver wire filigree washer.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted leather, silver gilt thread, ivory, brass, silver wire
Brief description
Fan made of painted kid leather and ivory sticks, Flanders, 1674-1699
Physical description
Fan made of kid leather with the front painted with a central vignette of Diana's Bath. This is flanked by a densely painted ground of pink roses and tulips with blue green foliage, and couched silver gilt thread edges the vignette. The thread is stitched in a foliage design among the flowers. There has been a gilt stencilled design at the borders but this has now worn. On the reverse is a stencilled all over pattern of formal red and blue tulips with a linking gilt foliage trail. The top border is of pink leather.

The sticks are of ivory, solid but with a serpentine edge. The guards have a pattern of incised diagonal lines. The pin is brass and there is a silver wire filigree washer.
Production
Flemish
Collection
Accession number
T.86-1968

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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