IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117907
accession number:	M.322-1985

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 leaf of dark green silk with net insertion, decorated with stamped, frosted gilt metal paillettes (two leaf shapes, palms, zigzag-edged panels and strips) and gold sequins.  Sticks and guards of bone, pierced with simple sprays of stylized leaves (16+2).  Barrel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.  The leaf has two horizontal bands of decoration at the top with four vertical panels and stripes below.  The upper edge has a gold binding.
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/117907

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:	1799 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1799
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown