IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117883 accession number: M.298-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in polychrome and gilt; sticks and guards of pierced, shaped, gilt and painted ivory. The latter carved and backed with mother-of-pearl; rivet with two cut red paste heads. The cream leaf is decorated with flowers, love trophies and scrolls, and with one large and two small shaped panels separated by two narrow rectangular panels. The central panel is decorated with two boys and two girls in a landscape, the right panel with a girl seated in a landscape, and the left panel with a boy seated in a landscape. The two rectangular panels are decorated with a small figure of a girl in a landscape, and a small figure of a man in a landscape. On the back there is a landscape with a border of stylized flowers and foliage on the left, top and right sides. The sticks are decorated with chinoiserie figures in panels with gilt edges. The sticks are carved with a Chinese figure and scrolls at the top and with flowers below. 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/117883 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection The Glory of the Garden, A Loan Exhibition in Association with the Royal Horticultural Society ---