Painted silk fan, France, ca.1900
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1900
Fan with leaf made of silk, mounted on gauze. The central vignette shows a girl in Empire style dress being taught to dance by a standing young man with a violin while a seated lady watches.
The vignette is flanked by panels rendered transparent by the cutting away of the silk so that only the gauze is left. Around the border is a gilt, Greek key pattern and blow this, laurel wreathes and palmette borders on a green ground, enriched with small sequins. The guards and gorge are of green stained mother of pearl with a gilt classical pattern of tasselled swags around torches. The decorative design of the fan remains a pastiche of the Rococo style.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Materials and techniques
- Watercolour on silk, with painted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- France
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O87264
- Museum object number
- T.60-1970
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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