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Maker/s	Unknown (maker)
Collection	Messel-Rosse Collection
Category	fans
Name	brisé fan
Description	Brisé fan, ivory, decorated with takamaki-e and hiramaki-e work and Shibayama inlay on guards. On the front, a thatched cottage in a bamboo grove near water; on the reverse, a cock and hen with wisteria.
Production Place	Japan (maker) (country) Japanese (maker) (nationality)
Technique Description	Brisé fan, ivory, decorated with takamaki-e and hiramaki-e work.
Dimensions	length: width:
Period	mid 19th century
Date	circa 1860
Provenance	bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Documentation	Armstrong, Nancy (1985) Fans from the Fitzwilliam. A Selection from the Messel-Rosse Collection, Cambridge (Cambs.): Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises Ltd [comments: Publ. No. 34]
Other Notes
Accession Number	O.82-1985 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 118516; Input Date: 2005-03-02 / Last Edit: 2011-05-04)

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