IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117894
accession number:	M.309-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double leaf of chickenskin painted in bodycolour and gilt.  Gold paper binding on upper edge. Mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, pierced and inlaid with gilt spangles, the latter also set with clear pastes (13+2).  Rivet with mother-of-pearl washer (?), barrel rivet.  Front:  Painted overall with the Coronation of Napoleon after part of the painting "Le Sacre de Napoleon" by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825).  Reverse:  An asymmetrically placed floral spray and two insects painted in gold.  Sticks: Pierced with small pointed and rectangular holes and set with asterisk-shaped gold spangles of graduated sizes.  Guards:  Pierced down the middle and set with four cut pastes of graduated sizes surrounded by tiny gold sequins;  at the top and down the edges, asterisk-shaped spangles
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/117894

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:	1807 - 1807
creation date earliest:	1807
creation date latest:	1807
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	Napoleon I

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection
Jacques-Louis David Jugé par ses Contemporains et par la Posterité
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