IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117948
accession number:	M.364-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 8 December 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Double paper leaf, painted in bodycolour and appliqued with painted ivory and coloured silks.   Shaped wood sticks and guards (14+2), lacquered red, brown, green, maroon and silver, with decoration in two shades of gold.  Gilt metal loop with pale green silk cord and knot from which are suspended two white beads and two tassels, buff and maroon.
Front:  Thirty Chinese men and women in indoor and outdoor settings.  Their faces are of applied painted ivory and their clothes of silk.  Border of fish, bats, Buddhist symbols and flowers on a blue ground.
Back: Main field as front, but different groups and settings.  Border of fish, bats, Buddhist symbols and flowers on a silver ground.
Sticks and Guards:  Sticks of alternating colours, the guards red, all painted with flowers and two figures; in addition the upper part of the guards has two figures by a building with flowers above.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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/117948

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:	1840 - 1850
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1850
culture:	19th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Fans of Imperial China
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