IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117725
accession number:	M.140-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 6 September 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf, decoupé by hand/stamped and painted in water colours. Sticks and guards of wood (11+2), pierced, painted, gilt and applied with flakes of abalone (?) shell, the guards strengthened at the head with ivory. Rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.  Front:  A Chinese bird seller holding a cage containing two birds, accompanied by a man holding a furled parasol and a woman holding a screen fan. On each side there are trees, and plants in pots.  Reverse: An asymmetrically placed flowering tree on a brown ground.  Sticks: Sparcely decorated with a split design of sprays of flowers, bowls, a bird, a butterfly, a swan and a man in a boat.  Guards: Pierced motifs and painted flowers.
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/117725

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:	1720 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1720
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown