IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117681
accession number:	M.96-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 28 February 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ivory, pierced, carved, painted in bodycolour, silvered and gilt.(24+2) Cream kid ribbon.  Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.
Front: In the middle, a circular medallion painted with a European riverside landscape enclosed by an engraved gold frame with a silver suspension loop and bow at the top.   The rest of the fan is pierced by fine longtitudinal striations and carved below the ribbon with two oval, two smaller circular and two lozenge-shaped medallions of Chinese scenes amid scrolling flowers and foliage.   Above the ribbon there are small panels containing fruit, flowers, birds, butterflies and landscapes and figures.
Reverse:  In the middle, a painted arrangement of flowers within a blue wreath.
Guards:  Carved with buildings in a landscape.
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/117681

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:	1750 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1750
culture:	18th Century, Mid

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown