IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117836 accession number: M.251-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Double leaf of paper, painted in polychrome body colour, and gilt. Ivory sticks and guards (18+ 2). The front of the sticks are engraved with striations, alternately two with a line down each side, and two with three lines close together. The guards have three lines on the lower part. All were originally covered with silver-gilt foil, some of which is missing (see condition). The upper part of the guards have a pierced and carved floral stem originally covered with silver-gilt foil, mostly missing, and backed by mother-of-pearl. The front of the leaf is decorated overall with a view of the Places des Victoires, Paris, with a statue of Louis XIV in the centre. At either side there are two green bushes, and a border of gold flowers and foliage, which extends round the top edge of the leaf. The reverse is decorated with a street scene with four tradesmen, and two ladies wearing hooped skirts, and on the left, two gravestones (?) object type: Double leaf of paper painted in polychrome body colour, and gilt. Ivory sticks and guards (18+ 2); the former decorated with gilt silver foil, the latter pierced and backed with mother-of-pearl. Paste rivet. 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/117836 PEOPLE ------------------- Louis XIV (1643-1715) Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne Louis XIV CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Guerard, Nicolas CITATIONS -------- French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire de Fonds Français Graveurs du XVIIe Siècle ---