IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117659
accession number:	M.73-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brisé fan, sticks and guards of machine cut horn, painted in bodycolour (20+2) Ribbon of cream coloured silk.  Iron rivet and washers.  Front:  five heart shaped medallions are surrounded by sprays of flowers; from left to right the fan depicts a man standing between trees, a classical ruin with columns and a tree, an arch, two people and a tree, a house and a tree and lastly a tree.  Below this there is a blue flower on each stick and fine scrolling gold foliage and below, sits a row of small flowers.  Over the ribbon there are flowers in scrolling gold leaves and there is a row of flowers on the bottom.  Back: undecorated.  Guards: Slightly scrolling foliage.
title:	brisé fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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 Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117659

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1815
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1815
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 28.3