IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117604 accession number: M.18-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double leaf chickenskin, painted in bodycolour. Sticks, Ivory, fretted, silvered, gilt and inlaid with steel sequins. Ivory guards, silvered, gilt, set with steel sequins, cut steels, Essex crystal glass and red gold plaques. (14+2) Rivet set with clear pastes. Front: a central oval frame containing a view of the Coliseum in Rome, flanked by smaller views of the Arch of Trajan and a Temple from the Forum Romanum in circular frames, reserved in a white ground decorated with grotesques and having borders of red foliate motifs above and below. The upper edge has a pale green border decorated with a scarlet line entwined with slender green ribbon. Sticks: of two designs, fretted and pierced, the latter set with steel sequins. Guards: below the shoulder, inlaid with steel sequins and silver and gold trophies; above the shoulder, set with steel sequins and cut steels and inset with a carved ivory scene with a blue background under Essex crystal/glass within a red gold/copper frame. Below the scene the left guard has a pointed red gold plaque engraved with a tulip and above, an oval plaque engraved with a flower, a treble clef and the words 'Vous/Sa/vez'. 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/117604 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 50.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain CITATIONS -------- From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain ---