IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117692
accession number:	M.107-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brisé fan, sticks of shaped, fretted, pierced, carved and painted ivory, guards of fretted and carved ivory with a magnifying glass in a brass frame at each end.  Ribbon of cream textile (new).  Front:  In the centre, a medallion painted with a women and a man who is cutting their initials in a tree.  The circle is flanked by two cartouches with baskets of flowers.  All the sticks have large holes on top which overlap when the fan is open.  Back: undecorated.  Guards: foliage under a man holding a hat standing under a tree. The front guards and back guard have a magnifying glass fixed onto the loops on top.  When the fan is closed all the loops form a window.
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/117692

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

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown