IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117866 accession number: M.281-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sticks and guards of wood with arched ends, pierced and painted in bodycolour (20+2). Pink silk ribbon. Brass? rivet (not steel) with star-shaped mother-of-pearl washers. Front: Painted in two shades of pink, blue, purple, yellow and white with a band of roses, other flowers and foliage, below which are blue vases of flowers with pierced backgrounds and four bands of smaller pierced formal floral and leaf ornament. Above the ribbon, the ends of the sticks have pierced palmettes. Guards: Pierced formal flowers and foliage. title: brisé 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/117866 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown