Fan

1900 - 1920

  • Titles Fan (Descriptive)
  • Medium ivory, straw, paper
  • Dimensions 7 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (19.1 × 31.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1095
  • Work Type fan
  • Classification Costume

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Oval dark blue jaser medallion with white relief portrait profile of Josef Franz Haydn (1732-1809) , set in plated silver frame surrounded with rhinestones. Haydn was a Austrian composer, he became a chorister in Vienna at the age of eight, and learned to play the pianoforte and the violin. When his voice broke he earned a scanty livelihood by playing the violin, and he had produced his first opera by the age of twenty. In 1758 he came to the notice of Prince Anton Esterhazy, and in the year following produced his first symphony. By this time he had achieved considerable popularity in Vienna, and Esterhazy made hi Vice-Kapellminster of the Court Orchestra in 1760. his success continued through Esterhazy's life and continued on after his death.
Light blue and white jasper kettle, the lower body engine-turned to create a pattern of stripes, the main body decorated with white relief with on one side Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other with figures from the Domestic Employment series, on the shoulder are stylized reeds and floral elements, the neck is raised and scalloped and the cover sits inside it, the cover likewise engine-turned and with a pattern of stiff leaf motifs and beading emanating from the conforming ball knop, the relatively straight spout is molded with overlapping leaves, the bail handle is comprised of silver and wood.
Knife of solid agateware, the handle of pistol shape and marbleized in shades of brown, blue and beige, with steel scimitar-shaped knife blade.
Oval green jasper medallion with white relief of Hercules and the nemean lion