IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117923
accession number:	M.338-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 28 February 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, leaf of cream-coloured mixed lace.  Sticks of spliced, pierced and carved mother-of-pearl painted in gold and silver.  Ribs of pierced bone (16+2).  Rivet of brass; washer of mother-of-pearl; loop of brass.  Front:  Duchess of Brussels mixed lace with floral design.  Three asymmetrically set needlepoint panels are inserted into the coarser bobbin lace, which is linked by typically zigzagging brides.  Back:  Undecorated.  Sticks: pairs of sticks are decorated with either sprays of leaves or sprays of leaves and flowers; the reverse is undecorated.  Guards:  the front guard has sprays of leaves and flowers profiling the edges; the back guard has scrolling leaves on the top profiling edges.
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/117923

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:	1900 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1900
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	20th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown