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Accession Nr.: | 7980.a-b |
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Date of production: |
ca. 1790
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Place of production: | Great-Britain |
Materials: | ivory; silk; silver foil |
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Techniques: | painted; pierced |
Dimensions: |
length: 28 cm
width: 52 cm
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On the uncoloured leaf are three coloured engravings printed on oval-shaped pieces of silk atlas. The middle one depicts children playing: a little boy kneeling is releasing a mouse from a birdcage opposite him his companion holds back a dog. Behind them two little girls look on. On either side there is one and the same engraving: a young girl is striking a tambourine she holds behind her head. Between the engravings is ornamentation made up of antique elements and small oval- and rhombus-shaped medallions among festoons of pearls and flowers. These medallions feature with blue-and-white, Wedgwood-influenced painting and depict two female figures and an amphora. These Wedgwood-type medallions also feature among the very small pierced embellishments on the sticks. There are fans of a similar type in an English private collection and in the collections at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Earlier exhibited as French work.
Literature
- Maros Donka Szilvia: Bájos semmiségek. Az Iparművészeti Múzeum legyezőgyűjteménye (1700-1920). Balassi Kiadó - Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2002. - Nr. 60.