IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117964
accession number:	M.380-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Black lacquered wooden brisé fan. Front and reverse sticks (19+2) show painted Chinese genre scenes.  Stick phinials are decorated with gold lacquer reliefs of alternating animals and floral sprays. The inner guards are also detailed in gold relief, with chinese dragons; the outer guards decorated with painted dragons of red and gold.  Red, silk ribbon.  Metal rivet?  The lower sticks (gorge) are decorated in gold lacquer.
title:	brisé fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-92)


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/117964

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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lacquering
TECHNIQUES
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relief

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1820 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Fans of Imperial China
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