IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117694
accession number:	M.109-1985

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, Ivory sticks and guards with shaped ends, pierced, painted in bodycolour and appliquéd with feathers and painted fabric (25+2). Cream silk ribbon.  Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.  Front: painted below the ribbon with a continuous spray of leaves with tiny red flowers, with two rows of piercing above and below.  Above the ribbon a wide border of butterflies and birds amidst roses, other flowers, foliage and fruit is painted; the birds and the two butterflies are appliquéd with feathers and painted fabric; the other two butterflies and the flowers heads are appliquéd with painted fabric.  Reverse: undecorated.
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/117694

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:	1790 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown