IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117593 accession number: M.7-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double skin leaf painted in watercolours. Sticks carved of ivory; guards of carved ivory (20+2) rivet of amethyst. Signed 'Domenico Spenezi, Napolitano in Roma' (?). Front: Mythological scene with Bacchus, the three maenads, Pan and Jupiter as an eagle. In the centre the child Bacchus is sitting, partly on a goat and partly on an amphora spilling wine. The three bare-breasted Maenads behind him are making music with a tambourine and a triangle with bells; on the left Pan with Satyr ears is sitting under a tree holding his syrinx. On the top right there is an amphora entwined by a vine, two putti and on the ground, Jupiter as an eagle, with vegetation at the right and the left edge of the leaf. There is an indistinct inscription at the top left corner. The edging is of a thin gold foile. Back: Bouquet of roses, tulips and bluebells in the centre; on the left, a single rose, three butterflies and two dragonflies; on the right, three butterflies, three dragonflies and a fly. The white skin leaf serves as a background. Sticks: Finely carved scrolling foliage. Five pairs of sticks show two women amid foliage. Reverse undecorated. Guards: Both guards are carved in the same way with scrolling foliage, a cornucopia, a man, a dolphin and a cockleshell. title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Messel-Rosse Collection creditline: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117593 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Spenezi, Domenico (?) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 43.0