Fan
late 18th century (made)
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Axe-shaped fan (Panka) of cotton embroidered with silk thread. Opens to a butterfly shape. Outside the cotton surface has coloured silk and spangled embroidery with silver tinsel border. The embroidery ground is covered with a pattern of hexagons enclosing flower sprigs in shades of red and green, and the prominent effect being pink and tarnished silver. The lining, of European and probably Spitalfields, silk is brocaded with sprigs of coloured flowers on a ground of white and silver stripes. The metal handle is gilt with silver.
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Materials and techniques | Embroidered cotton with silk thread and spangles, lined with brocaded silk |
Brief description | Fan (Panka) of cotton embroidered with silk thread, Murshidabad, late 18th century |
Physical description | Axe-shaped fan (Panka) of cotton embroidered with silk thread. Opens to a butterfly shape. Outside the cotton surface has coloured silk and spangled embroidery with silver tinsel border. The embroidery ground is covered with a pattern of hexagons enclosing flower sprigs in shades of red and green, and the prominent effect being pink and tarnished silver. The lining, of European and probably Spitalfields, silk is brocaded with sprigs of coloured flowers on a ground of white and silver stripes. The metal handle is gilt with silver. |
Object history | Stated to have belonged to Marion, second wife of Warren Hastings, Governor of India and formerly Baroness Imhoff. Purchased from Archibald Graham, Esq. in 1938. |
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Accession number | IM.7-1938 |
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Record created | April 29, 2005 |
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