IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117734 accession number: M.149-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The double-paper leaf is painted 'en grisaille' in bodycolour; on the reverse is painted a grey spray of flowers. The sticks and guards are of ivory, shaped, painted and carved on the guards. Backed with gold foil. This fan may have been used for 'half-mourning'. title: folding 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/117734 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1785 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown