IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117718
accession number:	M.133-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 4 January 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double chickenskin leaf, painted in bodycolour and silvered; the reverse shows fishermen by a river with boats.  The sticks are of painted ivory and the guards of polished bamboo, strengthened with tortoiseshell at the head.
title:	folding 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/117718

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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silvering

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1740 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1740
creation date latest:	1750
culture:	18th Century, Mid

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown