IDENTIFIERS
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id:	118486
accession number:	O.45-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, decorated, obverse with three figures in Heian period costume on verandas overlooking a garden with wisteria; reverse: with a spray of flowers.  Guards and sticks: bamboo.  Face: paper, painted, obverse: in ink and polychrome opaque watercolours with gold; reverse: in ink and gold wash on mica dressing.  The fan illustrates an episode from the Genji Monogatari.
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/118486

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:	1801 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1801
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 31.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Fans from the Fitzwilliam, The Messel-Rosse Collection