IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117949
accession number:	M.365-1985

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 water-colours ? bodycolour and appliqued with coloured silk and painted ivory.  Gold binding on upper edge.   Sticks of pierced and carved ivory stained red and gilt.  Guards of carved ivory, stained red and gilt. (14+2)  Rivet set with clear pastes.
Front: Within borders of fish, bats and symbols, forty men, women and children are arranged in groups inside and outside buildings.  They have faces of applied painted ivory and clothes of silk.
Reverse:  Within borders of fish, bats, flowers and symbols, is an exotic pheasant and another bird, standing amid flowers and foliage.
Sticks: Genre scenes picked out in gold with pierced striations in the background.
Guards: Genre scenes picked out in gold.
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: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117949

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:	1850 - 1860
creation date earliest:	1850
creation date latest:	1860
culture:	19th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection
Fans of Imperial China
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