IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117855
accession number:	M.270-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf, printed in black, painted in water-colours and silver.  Gold binding on upper edge.  Sticks and guards of polished bone (14+2).   Steel rivet. Front:  In the centre within an oval frame is a statue of Liberty holding a bundle of rods, axe and helmet in her left hand and a triangle in her right.  She stands on a pedestal inscribed in Dutch 'VRYHEID,/ LYKHEID/ BROEDERSCHAP'  (Liberty Equality Fraternity). On the left, a group of figures:  a woman kneeling beside a cradle, a standing woman holding a spear and a standing man wearing a red, white and blue cap.  On the right, another group, comprising a trooper with a gun, a woman with a small boy and a man holding a spear.   The ground is seme with silver dots resembling sequins, and on all sides there is a border of a wavy silver-dotted line reserved in a wide brown band.  Reverse:  Undecorated.  Sticks and Guards Undecorated.
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/117855

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:	1789 - 1789
creation date earliest:	1789
creation date latest:	1789
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown