Face screen
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Cardboard, wallpaper and ebonised wood
Measurements
390 x 195 x 20 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610041
Summary
Hand held face screen with elongated octagonal board and ebonised handle. Small oval opening for rotating print (missing (?), (nb. hole below), pink paper ground and stamped gilt borders. Floral sprays cut-out of wallpaper in pink, pasted on at later date. English manufacture circa 1830.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.