IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117960
accession number:	M.376-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Wooden brisé fan with black lacquered sticks and guards.  The front shows a painted scene of musicians and spectators in traditional chinese dress.  The reverse is decorated, in gold lacquer, with a repeating tortoiseshell motif, surrounding a central landscape scene: the scene shows a riverbank with a fisherman on one bank, watched by another figure on the opposite bank; behind them are several buildings, including a pagoda and a bridge across the river with a figure on the bridge. 
The sticks and guards (22+2) are also decorated with repeating motifs, painted in gold lacquer.  Red, silk ribbon and metal rivet.
title:	brisé fan

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-92)


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/117960

PEOPLE
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Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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lacquering

CATEGORIES
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category: fans

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1790
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1790
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Fans of Imperial China
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