IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117905 accession number: M.320-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in bodycolour and watercolour. Sticks of carved, pierced and painted ivory; guards of pierced, carved and painted ivory (20+2). Rivet of iron and washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: in the centre, a couple are sitting on a rock in front of trees and bushes; a woman holding a flower is standing next to them on the left, behind her a herm and a building with three high arches. There is another woman sitting on the left on the ground and a hunting scene with a stag followed by two riders in the background on the right. Blue and pink flowers and leaves border the scene. Back: there is a ruin with three arches surrounded by bushes, two shadow-like, very small figures and some bushes and grass in the foreground. top right and left borders are decorated with scrolling pink and blue leaves and flowers. Sticks: there are seven gold bordered medallions, the middle of which has a woman sitting under a roof and a man standing in front of her; it is flanked by two medallions of flowers, the left one with a basket of flowers on top, like the central one. The first three sticks on either side have two medallions one above the other. On the left, there is a hen at the bottom and a rabbit with a long tail on top, and on the right, there is a bird with open wings above the rabbit. Empty spaces are filled with sprays of flowers. The reverse is undecorated. Guards: both guards are decorated in a similar way: a scrolling spray of leaves on the shoulder, scrolls and garlands of flowers on the bottom of the guard proper, a woman sitting under a roof and two little arches on top. object type: Folding fan, double paper leaf painted in bodycolour and watercolour. Sticks of carved, pierced and painted ivory; guards of pierced, carved and painted ivory (20+2). Rivet of iron and washer of mother-of-pearl. Front: a couple sitting on a rock; back: a ruin with two shadow-like figures. 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/117905 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown