A flexible fan with a printed silk page, painted and with some paillettes applications. At the center, Urania, the Maths and Astronomy Muse and allegory of the universe’s beauty seen as sphere, she is explaining to the 2 little putto ( that one on feet with butterfly’s wings is the soul’s allegory) the beauty and the joy given by knowledge; the scene, inserted in an oval surrounded by paillettes, is printed. At the sides, two little symmetrical medals, they represent the “Judgementof Paride”, they are surrounded by paillettes too, but they are monochrome on a light blue background. The vertical partitions at grotesque follow the neoclassical taste. The pearl sticks have light incisions covered by golden leaf. The other blue ovals represent a feminine figure and a child. The guards have some geometrical and flowery applications, in metal, maybe silver, produced in that period in Manchester. A similar fan is present in Fächer op. cit. p.139, the author reminds us how these representations ( love for sciences and for the mother) can be connected to the philosophical thought of J.J. Rousseau. See the/en/mother_s_love which could be seen as an allegory of mother love.
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