IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117849 accession number: M.264-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brisé fan, sticks of pierced and gilt sandalwood, guards of carved ivory, thumb guard of tortoiseshell (27+2). Ribbon of painted silk. Metal rivet. Front: three medallions with Turkish musicians. In the centre, a woman is sitting under a sunshade being entertained by a man playing the pipe kneeling next to her, one dancing with a tambourine, one singing and one playing the drums. There is a little dog in the foreground and a building behind a wall in the background. In the left medallion, a man is playing the drums; in the right one a woman is playing the mandolin. All three scenes are bordered by scrolling ornaments between two dotted gold lines. Four cartouches show stalks with vases on top. On the bottom, buildings and sprays of flowers; on top, a ribbon with a dotted blue and red zigzag pattern over a row of pierced scrolls. Back: In the central cartouche, a landscape with three women and two men dancing in a circle holding hands round a tree. The flanking panels have trees in landscapes. Between the main cartouches light blue and white panels with buildings, sprays of flowers and pierced scrolls are positioned. On the bottom there is an animal with five pairs of feet and the ribbon on top is decorated with a red and blue chain of eye-shaped ornaments with white dots. Guards: Both guards are decorated in a similar way: an empty panel on the bottom, a leaf on a rough background, a trellis panel, a flower on rough background, a plain panel and a shell on rough background on the top. object type: Brisé fan, sticks of pierced and gilt sandalwood, guards of carved ivory, thumb guard of tortoiseshell (27+2). Ribbon of painted silk. Metal rivet. Front: three medallions with Turkish musicians; back people dancing. title: brisé 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/117849 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- The East through Occidental Eyes, Chinoiserie Fans in the Messel-Rosse Collection ---