IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117842
accession number:	M.257-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Single silk leaf, painted in bodycolour with applied, painted ivory faces for the two people and embroidered with silver and gilt sequins.  The reverse has a lightly traced replication of the front design, in brown.  The sticks and guards are of bone, pierced, silvered and gilt, and the guards are backed with gold foil.
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/117842

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown