IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117672
accession number:	M.86-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ivory sticks, pierced, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Ivory guards painted in bodycolour and gilt. (20+2)   Gold stringing.  Black rivet with green washers.
Front: Reserved in a pierced square trellis design, is a circular panel with a black frame, containing a Chinese family in a garden:  a man with a dog and a woman holding a baby in her arms.  On each side of the panel there are arrangements of flowers and fruit and a flying bird and insect.  Above there is a red border with black floral ornament and below a green border with delicate black scroll ornament.  The area below the shoulder is undecorated.
Reverse:  The same design reversed.
Guards:  Plain ivory decorated with a gold dragon and red bands above and below.
title:	brisé fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953);  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/117672

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:	1680 - 1720
creation date earliest:	1680
creation date latest:	1720
culture:	17th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Une des plus belles collections d'eventails du monde
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