IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117682
accession number:	M.97-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 30 June 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ivory sticks and guards with rounded ends, painted in colours (21+2).  Cream silk ribbon.   Steel rivet with mother-of-pearl washers.
Front:  In the middle,  within a circular frame is a Chinese genre scene:  a mandarin, two women and a servant boy in the garden of a house.  On each side there is a bunch of mixed flowers, and above a border of flower garlands which trail down the extreme left and right sticks.  Above the ribbon there are arched panels, three in the centre containing figures and the rest flowers.
Revese: Similar but with the figures reversed.
Guards:  On the front, flowers and a bird;  on the back, flowers.
title:	brisé 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/117682

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:	1820 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown