IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118511 accession number: O.57-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with two figures in the costume of nobles, seated under cherry (?) trees by a stream; reverse: with five flying cranes. Guards: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome). Guards: bamboo, red-lacquered and pierced. Sticks: red lacquered bamboo. Face: paper with simulated leather grain, painted in ink and polychrome opaque watercolours on a gold ground. 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/118511 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 30.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.9