IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117670 accession number: M.84-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sticks and guards of stained horn with rounded serrated ends, decorated with applied gold foil; steel rivet and washers and brown silk ribbon. Front; In the centre, a man with a hat is standing in front of a little building (perhaps a mausoleum), trees and two crosses; to the right and left there are sprays of leaves, a swag of leaves and a sprays of flowers. There is a narrow fan-shaped border, which is decorated with leaves at the top and with stripes on the other sides. On the top of each stick there are either three or five leaves. Back: undecorated. Guards: both guards are decorated in the same way with pendant leaves and lozenges. title: brisé fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117670 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5