IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117897 accession number: M.312-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan of double silk. Painted with a woman and a child leading a sheep. The leads are of applied painted ivory, their clothing and other decorations are embroidered in gold sequins. Sticks and guards of horn inland with cut steels, the guards also having blue stones. 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/117897 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1805 - 1805 creation date earliest: 1805 creation date latest: 1805 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown