Folding screen
Category
Brassware
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Metal, Silk
Measurements
133 mm (Length); 32 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338229
Summary
Folding circular table screen. Pleated green silk screen secured to brass end plates. Brass sticks, when extended to its full circle, slot into tube which fits into one end of double ended brass bracket. There are two sliders one the bracket which compress the ends – one to hold the screen, the other to clamp onto another object. The fan is stored in a cylindrical tin plated box, with the remains of gold and black decoration. Inscribed 17 on the inside of the lid.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.