IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118513 accession number: O.60-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Folding fan, decorated, face: with calligraphic inscription on both sides; guards a) with bird over bamboo; b) with butterfly over peony. Guards: steel with silver inlay. Sticks: buffalo horn. Face: heavy black paper, inscribed in silver with vermillion seals (un-deciphered). Signed Kunimitsu, with Kakihan. 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/118513 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kunimitsu DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 35 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Fans from the Fitzwilliam, The Messel-Rosse Collection