IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117863
accession number:	M.278-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in polychrome and gilt; Sticks of shaped, pierced, painted and gilt ivory; guards of shaped, carved, pierced and painted ivory backed with mother-of-pearl (26+2) steel rivet with green cut paste head.  Front:  the leaf has a blue ground decorated with a trellis and pink, blue and white flowers, with one large shaped reserve and two small shaped reserves framed by gilt scrolls.  The central reserve is decorated with five young people amusing themselves in a landscape; the right reserve has a young man playing a pipe in a landscape; and the left reserve has a seated girl holding a ribbon-bedecked rod in a landscape.  Back:  a girl sits beside a bush on an island in a landscape, with borders of pink and blue flowers and stylized foliage round the left, top and right sides of the leaf.  Sticks:  painted with flowers.  Guards:  carved with a young man playing a pipe enclosed by scrolls, with a flower above and a basket of flowers below.
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/117863

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:	1770 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown