IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117691
accession number:	M.106-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brisé fan, sticks and guards of pierced, fretted and painted in body colour bone; thumb guard of mother-of-pearl (28+2) white ribbon; iron rivet and mother-of-pearl washers.  Front:  the fan is decorated in three zones, the middle of which has three similar cartouches on a background of finely cut flowers and foliage with painted blossoms.  The cartouches are of two blue wavy scrolls bordered with a gold line supporting a lilac pedestal; above two roses are worked in a gold medallion.  Three gold lilies crown the cartouche.  The zone on top, bordered by the ribbon, has three wavy blue and gold double scrolls on a similar background, each directly above a cartouche and with two roses in the middle.  The bottom row is of a regular pattern.  The top border is of gold dots between gold lines.  The lower border is of a lilac line, the left edging of a blue line.  Back: undecorated.  Guards flowers and foliage bordered by a blue line.
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/117691

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:	1820 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	Louis XVIII or Charles X

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown