IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117802
accession number:	M.217-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double silk leaf painted in bodycolour and decorated with silver and gold tambour work, silver and gold sequins and gold paint.  The reverse has a light tracing of the main elements of the design in red, blue and purple paint.  The sticks and guards are of mother-of-pearl, etched, silvered and gilt and the guards are also back with gold foil.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953) by his aunt Georgina T. Pington (?) who was given it by her brother William Charles Cussans (?). From Messel to 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/117802

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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tambour work

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown