Japanese screen fan (Gampai Uchiwa), decorated with chrysanthemums

An image of Screen fan. Gampai Uchiwa. Unknown maker, Japan. Screen fan, decorated with Chrysanthemums. Sticks: dark (?) pine. Face: cedar (?) painted in polychrome opaque watercolours with raised work in gofun. (Powdered shell). Height, whole, cm, width, whole, 21.3 cm, after 1801 to before 1900. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Screen fan. Gampai Uchiwa. Unknown maker, Japan. Screen fan, decorated with Chrysanthemums. Sticks: dark (?) pine. Face: cedar (?) painted in polychrome opaque watercolours with raised work in gofun. (Powdered shell). Height, whole, cm, width, whole, 21.3 cm, after 1801 to before 1900. Messel-Rosse Collection.

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Accession Number: O.50-1985
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19th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_Messel-Rosse _WF_OPAC cedar chrysanthemum fan fans Fitz_AA fixed fan floral flowers Gampai Uchiwa gofun hand fan Japanese pigment pine powdered shell screen fan shell tassel tasselled tassels watercolour wood

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