IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117891
accession number:	M.306-1985

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 of red silk, painted with a female figure with a faces of applied ivory, and who has a garland. The whole leaf is embroidered with gold sequins and frosted gilt stamped metal paillettes.
Sticks and guards of pierced ivory, gilded and inlaid with cut steels. Paste 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/117891

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown