Fan

Late 19th or early 20th century

  • Titles Fan (Descriptive)
  • Medium satin
  • Dimensions Overall: 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Mary Martin Hames, 1979.3
  • Work Type fan
  • Classification Costume

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Four round blue jasper rosettes with white relief petals, set in silver as buttons
One of a pair of tall cream-colored, pearlware vases decorated in enamel colors and partially gilt, the gold a dark, brownish color, the small square base with a row of stylized anthemion motifs highlighted in gold, the foot with a border in a modified egg-and-dart pattern likewise picked out in gold, and the lower body of the urn-shaped vase with stylized, individually molded acanthus leaves outlined in gold; the main body of each vase is painted in the round with different delicate and very detailed seascapes that both show a gray and blue cloudy--almost stormy--sky over a choppy turquoise-blue sea, each scene includes a variety of ships with billowing sails, as well as groups of sailors in small row boats attempting to land ashore through rough, foamy waves, the sea also includes debris from the ships floating in the water, above each central scene is a band of overlapping leaves highlighted in gold, and the slender neck includes stylized foliate motifs outlined in gold and a band of beading around the lip; on each vase the two tall, slender, partially-gilt, scrolled handles has a slithery gold snake coiled around it, the snakes' heads rest on the shoulder of the vase.
Sauce bowl of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with two loop handles likewise with applied decoration.
Bust in profile right in Austrian general's uniform with the Order of the Golden Fleece, other medals, and ermine mantle.