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This initial is similar to the cipher of Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France (1770-1793). Fans were fashionable, personal accessories carried by women as part of dress. The intended weight of the fan is given as six ounces which was important information for the woman who would hold it. The design was drawn by an anonymous designer on the 5th of January, 1788.  \r\n\r\nThe design is inscribed with the price of the fan which was breathtakingly expensive at '6 cent livre' or six hundred <i>livres</i>. In comparison, Jean Bertos, a cook-shop employee who died in 1784, left clothes worth 38 <i>livres</i> which shows how such a fan cost five hundred and sixty-two more <i>livres</i> than the shop assistant's entire wardrobe.\r\n\r\nThere is a close relationship between the contents of the album and known work by three Parisian goldsmiths, Jean Ducrollay (1710-1787), Pierre- François Drais (active 1761-1788), and Charles Ouizille (1744-1830) whose names appear on the first page of the album. This suggests that all the designs emanate from their workshops.  Drais worked for the Court at Versailles as jeweller to both King Louis XV and Louis XVI. Ouizille worked in this capacity for Louis XVI. Most of the material dates from the period 1755-90.","physicalDescription":"Design for a fan, shown open with eight different patterns of stick decoration and a plain mount carrying the letter 'M' in an oval. \r\n.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"Ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"Paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Drawing","id":"x32498"},{"text":"Painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil and pen and ink and watercolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"Accessories","id":"THES48998"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"},{"text":"Personal accessories","id":"THES48912"},{"text":"Fans","id":"THES253017"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2011ET3365"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"SB5","shelf":"SH6","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"designs","id":"AAT102051"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"05/01/1788","earliest":"1788-01-05","latest":"1788-01-05"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with the assistance of Wartski Limited","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"28","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"36","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'fait le 5 janvier 1788 a 6 cent livre'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"made on the 5 january for 6 hundred <i>livres</i>","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In pen and ink to the bottom left beneath the design."},{"content":"'Exequté' / 'Executé'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"executed","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In pen and ink above two of the designs for sticks."},{"content":"'pois 6. once'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"weight 6 onces","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In pen and ink at the far left bottom beneath the design."},{"content":"'Bon'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Good","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Two stick patterns inscribed in pencil and marked with a cross."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design form album of designs by Ouizille, French, eighteenth century.\r\nNOT TO BE ISSUED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE HEAD OF DESIGNS","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Roche, Daniel. The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the \"ancien régime\". Birrell, Jean. (translated). Cambridge University Press, 1994."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Heike Zech,<u> 'Designs for Gold Boxes in the Album of the Workshop of Jean Ducrollay and his Successors'</u>, in <i>Going for Gold: craftsmanship and collecting of gold boxes</i>, ed. Tessa Murdoch and Heike Zech (Sussex academic press, 2014). "}],"production":"Attribution note: There are eight alternative designs for sticks for fans and two are marked 'executé' or executed which is a goldsmith's workshop record that they were made for clients. One has pen and ink marks that suggest that it has been cancelled and another, which has not got the note 'executé', by it also has pen and ink marks suggesting that it has been cancelled because it was made for a client.\r\n\r\nThe fan when made weighed 6 ounces indicated by the inscription 'poids 6. once'. 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