IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117592
accession number:	M.6-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan. Double chickenskin leaf, painted in bodycolour.  Right, left and upper edge gilt.  Sticks and guards of pierced and carved ivory (18+2).  Rivet set is clear pastes.  Front:  painted overall with Cephalus and Aurora after the fresco by Annibale and Agostino Carracci (1560-1609) in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese (1573-1626) in 1595.  reverse: Painted overall  with a view of the Tiber and the Ponte Rotto, the ancient Pons Aemilius in Rome.  Sticks:  three shaped oval cartouches, each containing a chinoiserie scene: a boy holding out a chrysanthemum towards a seated man holding a pipe, with vases and flowering plants on each side. Guards:  below the shoulder, a vase amid scrolls and flowers; above, scrolls, flowers and a Chinese figure.
title:	folding fan

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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117592

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:	1750 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 48.5



CITATIONS
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Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection
Une des plus belles collections d'eventails du monde
The Farnese Gallery
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