IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117736 accession number: M.151-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, single paper leaf painted in body colour. Sticks of pierced and painted ivory with a zone of chinoiserie, guards of carved ivory, encrusted with reddish wood, ebony coloured wood and bone, partly backed with foil.(22+2). Rivet set with clear pastes. Front: In the centre, three scenes painted as three small pictures lying on top of each other; on top, a shepherd and shepherdess standing in a landscape beside water, with an urn on a pedestal, trees and a folly in the background. On the left, a well, some classical columns and a pyramid, all painted in blue. On the right, in brown, a man pouring water into a trough; in the background a cistern with an urn on top. The scenes are on a painted blue and white lace ribbon (Mechlin?), which is backed by a brown and gold trellis pattern with dots in the corners. The centre is flanked by two scenes in blue, wavy scrolls surrounded by flowers; on the left, a boy kneeling in front of a woman, a boy standing next to them; in the background there is a house behind a wall. On the right, a couple playing a game of cards is worked. The top edging is of a green and gold line; left, right and lower edging are of a single gold line. There are gold square ornaments with circles on a brown background at the top corners of the leaf. Back: A shepherdess is sitting on a bank under a tree; in the background, there is a little house with a fence in front of a forest. Sprays of flowers and some wavy ornaments border the scene. Sticks: In the centre, a chinoiserie scene with two seated people on a table and on the left, a classical ruin painted in blue and on the right, painted in brown, probably a squirrel attacking a basket of grapes, which has turned over. The three scenes, which follow the colour concept of the main scenes of the leaf, are bordered by a gold scrolling ornament. There is a Chinese-style rose on the reverse of the back guard; the first and second sticks have sprays of roses, the twenty-first and twenty-second sticks show a bird and an insect. The lower part of the sticks is pierced to show a lacy pattern when the fan is open. Reverse decorated with a little gold flower arrangement in the centre. Guards: Both guards are decorated in a similar way. The shoulder has encrusted striations of wood and ivory; the guard proper is carved, pierced and backed with puce foil on the top and bottom. In the middle, two wooden lines border an encrustation looking like a diagonal chessboard with bone and painted wood. object type: Folding fan, single paper leaf painted in body colour. Sticks of pierced and painted ivory with a zone of chinoiserie, guards of carved ivory, encrusted with reddish wood, ebony coloured wood and bone, partly backed with foil.(22+2). Rivet set with clear pastes. A variety of pastoral scenes are worked on the fan. 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/117736 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures for the Nation, Conserving our Heritage CITATIONS -------- The East through Occidental Eyes, Chinoiserie Fans in the Messel-Rosse Collection The Fan and Lace Treasures for the Nation, Conserving our Heritage The Martin Willcocks Collection of Fans ---