IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117805 accession number: M.220-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double silk leaf, decorated with bodycolour, gold paint and applied gold sequins. Sticks of pierced ivory with silver and gold incrustations; guards of carved ivory with silver and gold incrustations, backed with mother-of-pearl and coloured foile (14+2); rivet set with square, table cut, clear pastes. Front: Three medallions framed by gold sequins on a pale green ground. The central scene (with two rows of sequins) has a lady and her son going towards a couple of peasants, and a boy cleaning a gentleman's shoes on the right. The group is flanked by architecture; in the background there is a mountain landscape with a village and a mansion. The main scene is flanked by two ovals, one with a woman selling flowers from a tray, the other one showing a man carrying water. The free spaces are filled with sprays of flowers and exotic birds. Top and lower edges have a gold border, top edging of gold foile; right and left border has scrolling gold ornaments on a darker background. Back: the stitching of the sequins on the front shows on the reverse forming the same medallion. The flanking ovals are undecorated; the central medallion has a Chinese style branch with red berries. Sticks: from the guards to the middle, the sticks are decorated in a symmetrical way: scrolling, fretted ornaments and crosses encircled by a gold line; three sticks form a medallion with flowers and a vase, the first stick is repeated and in the centre four sticks form a big vase surrounded by flowers. Guards: Both guards are decorated in a similar way: on the shoulder a bunch of arrows, a trumpet over a ribbon with a tambourine. (The inside of the back guard is decorated in the same way). The guard proper is deeply cut and backed with mother-of-pearl and with puce foile at the top left corner. On the bottom, a music trophy comprising a hat, a mandolin and a trumpet, above a vase with a scrolling ornament in the middle, a flower on top and a pierced flower top left. object type: Folding fan, double silk leaf, decorated with bodycolour, gold paint and applied gold sequins. Sticks of pierced ivory with silver and gold incrustations; guards of carved ivory with silver and gold incrustations, backed with mother-of-pearl and coloured foile (14+2). The design includes a central scene with several people and two cartouches. title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117805 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1785 culture: 18th Century, Late# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown