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Folding fan, leaf of vellum painted in watercolours with carved mother-of-pearl sticks, leaf design after Jean-Baptiste Pillement, France, 1760-70. Fan leaf of vellum painted in watercolours. Three vignettes make up the design, showing Chinese fishermen, Chinese children playing on a see-saw, and Chinese children making music. Each scene is set in a landscape framed by delicate rococo scrolls. The…
Subject
- Chinoiserie
- vignettes;children;musical instruments;robes;scrolls;reeds;trees;fishing;seesaw;pagoda;blossom;drum;bullrush
Type of item
- Object Type: fan
- fan
- Hand fan
Date
- 1760/1770
- 1760/1770
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 1760/1770
- 1760/1770
Places
- France
- France
Identifier
- T.154-1978
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87184
Extent
- Length 27.5cm, Depth 2.6cm (unspecified); Width 3.0cm (closed); Width 52.0cm (open)
Format
- Technique: hand painting
- Technique: carving
- Color: pink
- Color: black
- Color: white
- hand-painted
- carving
- pink
- black
- white
- Textile painting
- Carving
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- silver
- pearl
- wood
- silver
- rhinestone
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-04-09T09:16:57.098Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-07-16T09:06:00.856Z