IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117943 accession number: M.359-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 February 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, the leaf composed of three bands of mica panels, mounted in double paper, painted in bodycolour and gilt. Ivory sticks of serpentine form; guards of ivory, the lower part serpentine, the upper part pierced by three panels backed with mica mounted in paper. Brass rivet. Front. The mica panels are painted in colours with different motifs including: floral sprays, flowers in vases, flowers with a bird, flowers with a dog, a dog with a bird, a bird with a dragonfly, a butterfly, a boy with a butterfly, a boy playing a pipe, a Cupid holding a heart, a Cupid brandishing an arrow, a seated boy, a female bust; some occurring more than once, but not identically. The horizontal paper borders between the panels are painted alternately black and blue with gilt ornament. Reverse: Mica undecorated, paper mounts painted en suite with those on the front. Sticks: lower part plain except for cog-like nicks in the edges. Upper part behind the leaf painted with gold squiggles. Guards: lower part plain except for cog-like nicks in the edges. Above the shoulder they have a border of diagonal strokes. title: folding fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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/117943 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne boy girl SUBJECTS ------------------- dog dog CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1665 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 45 dimension: Width units: in value: 17 3/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection Fantasy in Plume and Parchment, European Fans from the Leonard Messel Collection Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum A Collector's History of Fans A Flutter of Fans Une des plus belles collections d'eventails du monde The Fan The History of the Fan News, Cambridge Fans The Annual Reports of the syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the year ending 31 December 1987 Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Fans, The Bulletin of the Fan Circle International --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/M_359_1985_1_201408_jas244_mas.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_M_359_1985_1_201408_jas244_mas.jpg height: 296 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: 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