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…
- Chinoiserie
- vignettes;children;musical instruments;robes;scrolls;reeds;trees;fishing;seesaw;pagoda;blossom;drum;bullrush
- Object Type: fan
- Hand fan
- fan
- 1760/1770
- Material: mother of pearl
- Nacre
- mother of pearl
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- false
- 1760/1770
- Francija
- France
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87184
- T.154-1978
- Length 27.5cm, Depth 2.6cm (unspecified); Width 3.0cm (closed); Width 52.0cm (open)
- Technique: hand painting
- Technique: carving
- Textile painting
- Carving
- hand painting
- carving
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
- white
- pink
- silver
- pearl
- wood
- silver
- rhinestone
- United Kingdom
- 2020-04-09T09:16:57.098Z
- 2022-09-30T09:41:10.509Z