Folding fan with a Chinese genre scene

An image of Folding fan of double paper, painted in colours with a Chinese genre scene in a landscape. Sticks and guards of pierced ivory. Length, guard, 26.9 cm, 1770-1790. Chinese, possibly. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Folding fan of double paper, painted in colours with a Chinese genre scene in a landscape. Sticks and guards of pierced ivory. Length, guard, 26.9 cm, 1770-1790. Chinese, possibly. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Accession Number: M.145-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 669 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 139.73kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2017:03:30 12:09:26

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18th Century cats costume fan fans fashion fashionable Fitz_AA folding fan genre scenes ivory landscape painted paper pierced scenes

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