- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman’s circular fan with carved ivory handle.
- Long description
- Woman’s circular fan with carved ivory handle. Ground of macaw feathers and swansdown; centrepiece of 2 hummingbirds, featherwork roses and wired foliage decorated with beetle wings. three featherwork carnations on reverse. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/9/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- English
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1850-1900
- Date collected
- By 1944
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Bird Feather, Material Swansdown Feather Bird, Material Beetle Insect, Material Metal Wire, Material Plant, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 240 mm, Length: max 350 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.10.81
- Associated publications
- This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: ‘Feather fans were extremely popular in Victorian Britain. The feathers of exotic birds were imported from all over the world. They were then cured, dyed, curled, and fashioned into spectacular objects. This English fan is thought to be late Victorian. It is made from swan down and South American macaw feathers, and has been set with stuffed humming birds, probably also imported from South America. The handle is made from carved Chinese ivory.
1944.10.81
Woman’s circular fan with carved ivory handle.
On display
1944.10.81
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