IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117781
accession number:	M.196-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, leaf of white net with a gold paper binding along the top, decorated with a wide band of applied stamped and cut gold metallic sheet in panels, over which there are polished steel panels with elliptical piercing and three rows of swags.  Below there are polished steel palmettes with three leaves below each.  All the polished steels are attached by black silk thread.  Sticks and guards of ivory (12+2), the sticks are shaped and pierced with stylized plant motifs and set with a star and three small circular polished steels.  The guards are pierced by a wedge-shaped hole laid over a pierced sheet of steel, surrounded by borders of small circular steels.  Steel rivet.
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/117781

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:	1800 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown