IDENTIFIERS
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id:	125148
accession number:	O.1 & A-1994

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 6 August 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brisé fan, pierced ivory sticks and carved ivory guards (19+2) mounted with white goose feathers tipped with marabou, and painted in polychrome body colour: shades of green, blue, purple, shades of pink, shades of brown, grey and black.  Gilt-metal carrying loop ornamented with a red silk knot attached by a pale green silk cord.  The sticks and guards are decorated with figures, buildings and plants.  The front of the feather mount is decorated with two quail standing on either side of a small prunus tree and a rock, flanked by flowering plants and foliage.  On the back there is a small arrangement of flowers and foliage in the centre. The fan is accompanied by a fragment from the end of its pasteboard boz covered with pale blue brocade and painted with a floral spray (A).
title:	brisé fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor


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 Professor J. Nias

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/125148





CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1820 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	19th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: uncertain

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 53