IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117711
accession number:	M.126-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ivory sticks and guards with arched serrated ends (23+2), pieced and painted in bodycolour.  Cream silk ribbon.    Steel rivet with ivory washers.   The central section of the fan opens four ways, showing four scenes:
l. A young woman with a basket of flowers over her right
   arm, seated under a tree in a garden.
2. A youth playing a lyre, seated under a tree in a
   landscape.
3. A peasant girl with a pot on her head, walking in a
   wooded landscape with a barn in the background.
4. A basket of flowers, including pansies and roses.
Sticks: The pierced design comprising zig-zags formed by vertical lines, ogees and stylized plants is arranged in horizontal bands on either side of the central panel.  Above the ribboning there are three plants motifs on each stick.
Guards:  Vertical stylized plant sprays with two rosettes at the top
title:	brisé 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 Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117711

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:	1790 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown