IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117737
accession number:	M.152-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, double leaf of cream silk decorated with inset criss-crossed gut, silver foil ribbon, silver sequins and painted gold dots.  The upper edge has a silver binding.  Sticks of pierced and silvered ivory, backed with mother-of-pearl; guards of pierced, carved and silvered ivory backed with mother-of-pearl (12+2).  Rivet set with clear pastes.  The criss-crossed gut forms fifty-two oval peepholes in vertical groups of four, edged with silver foil ribbon, between which are wavy lines of sequins attached by stitching.  Along the top there is a wavy line of sequins and gold dots.
title:	folding 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/117737

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:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown