IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117934
accession number:	M.349-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Folding fan, sticks of bone, pierced and painted with bodycolour and lacquer with applied,stamped gold spangles. Ribbon of green moiré.  Guards of carved and painted ivory, thumb guard of tortoiseshell (27+2). Rivet of iron and washer of horn. Front: the upper part is pierced with different patterns in four zones, seperated by rows of different spangles and decorated with eleven miniature portraits on ovals in the middle; on the bottom, a little chinoiserie with four circus acrobats. The ribbon is fixed on top of the sticks. Back: two rows of leaf, flower and snail spangles and a chinoiserie with three figures on the bottom (Indistinct trees in the medallions). Guards: both are decorated in a similar way: a lozenge, a burning heart on a blue roughened background, a man in an oval and a shell on a rough blue surface. The reverse of the guards are decorated with sprays of flowers and a Chinese figure.
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/117934

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:	1700 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown