IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117884
accession number:	M.299-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan of silk, double leaf. Painted in gouache with a central scene of three ladies and a baby, flanked by cartouches containing pairs of doves, and a quiver and a bow. On the reverse is floral decoration.
Sticks of ivory and gold. Guards of carved and pierced ivory, gilded, and backed with mother-of-pearl.
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/117884

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1780 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1780
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century, Late#
culture:	Louis XVI

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown