IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117871
accession number:	M.286-1985

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 bodycolour and gilt.  Sticks and guards of pierced, carved and painted ivory, the latter backed with red foil (20+2). Rivet of brass; washer of mother-of-pearl.  Front:  In the foreground a harbour scene with people working and a fort on an island in the background.  There are some rowing boats on the bank of the island and men-of-war.  Top, left and right borders are of red and gold scrolls and flowers.  The top edge is of a white paper ribbon.  Back:  a little island with a ball on a pedestal and a tree on a hill in the centre, flanked by water plants.  A lilac line with blue and pink flowers and scrolls borders the leaf.  Sticks:  finely carved flowers are decorated with intertwining floral ribbons.  Reverse decorated with intertwining ribbons in blue-red-green.  Guards:  two floral ribbons, one above the other, wind their way through flowers. The guard proper of the front guard is backed with pink and puce foil, the back guard with puce foil.  The lower part is carved with a balaster and an hourglass shape.
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/117871

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:	1765 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1765
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown