IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117793 accession number: M.208-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Double silk leaf painted and embroidered with gold and silver sequins and gold thread, applied printed-paper. Sticks of cut and painted ivory inlaid with clear pastes of pierced steel; guards of pierced steel backed with puce foil (17+2) rivet of brass; washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: the central medallion is printed with a scene showing Cupid broaching a wine barrel with Bacchus. It is bordered by a broad blue line inside two rows of gold sequins and flanked by a square blue and silver bordered panels with love trophies and two oval medallions with trees. Scrolling sequin and thread ornaments and gold flowers decorate the white leaf, which is bordered by a chain of leaves and ovals between lilac and a green line. The top edging is painted in gold. Back: undecorated. Sticks: alternating sticks of pierced steel and ivory, with two ivory sticks in the middle. The ivory sticks have slightly scrolling ornaments bordered by clear pastes, four medallions and figures imitating Wedgwood Jasperware. The steel sticks have a hole pattern. Guards: both guards are decorated in the same way: profiled steel decorated with holes. 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/117793 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne Bacchus Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- barrel torch barrel torch CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown