IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	118510
accession number:	O.56-1985

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with pine and wisteria by a riverbank; reverse: with schematised swallows and butterflies; the "sky" on both sides with diaper and floral patterns. Guards: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome).  Guards: bamboo, lacquered and pierced.  Sticks: bamboo. Face: heavy paper, painted in ink, and polychrome opaque watercolours, with gold wash, gold and gold on a red ground.
title:	folding fan

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); 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/118510

PEOPLE
-------------------
Messel, Leonard
Countess of Rosse, Anne




CATEGORIES
------
category: fans

DATING
------
creation date:	1801 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1801
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
--------
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 31.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
-------------------
title:	Fans from the Fitzwilliam, The Messel-Rosse Collection