Anonymous Valencian (Spain) c. 1860
"Moses saved from the waters" Elizabethan fan c. 1860

"Moses saved from the waters" Elizabethan fan c. 1860
Max. dimension 51 cm

Overall height 29.2 cm

Country height 8 cm

Number of rods 18 (16+2).

Elizabethan fan circa 1860 probably made in Valencia (Spain). Country with printed paper and lithographed and colored decoration (obverse) and unlithographed painting (reverse). Openwork wand made of mother-of-pearl with vegetal decoration. It stands out for its beauty and originality the two guards of this fan, matching with its rods, where a cameo appears with a representation of a woman seen in profile, piece crimped to a golden application; matching with this, the other guard, shows a small octagonal mirror, with the purpose of knowing the situation of the possible suitors of its possessor.

Obverse decorated with a scene depicting Moses saved from the waters. It represents the moment in which the daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt, wearing a crown and located in the center of the composition, receives from the hand of her subjects a child recently taken out of a basket (below), future Moses, saved from the waters of the Nile River, located in the background.

Reverse with original painting showing a landscape with architecture and two fishermen by a river or lake. Very good preservation.