IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117924
accession number:	M.339-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 8 December 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, leaf of white guipure lace without a net ground worked in cotton thread.  Sticks and guards of spliced mother-of-pearl (16+2) ribs of pierced bone.  Rivet of steel and washer of mother-of-pearl and a brass loop.  Front:  Duchesse de Brussels lace with sprigs linked by typical zigzagging brides. Back and guards are undecorated.
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/117924

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1870 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1870
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century, Late#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown