IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117715 accession number: M.130-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory sticks and guards, pierced and carved (23+2). The left guard is strengthened with a silver plaque. Cream silk ribbon. Brass? rivet with mother-of-pearl washers. Front: Carved with the inscription 'SI VOUS AIMEZ CE QUE L'AIME/VOUS VOUS AIMEREZ VOUS MEME' in two lines; above between and below, pierced striations edged by dotted borders. Reverse: Undecorated. Guards: Carved with tiny flowers and birds on a pierced net ground. On the back, engraved striations, a bird and a flower. 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/117715 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection Waaiers English and Continental Silver, Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu ---