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Maker: Unknown
Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with lobed circular blue cartouches painted with chrysanthemum, orchid, bamboo, pine and prunus, on a red ground; reverse: similar, but red cartouches on a blue ground. Sticks: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome). Guards: bamboo, lacquered and pierced. Sticks: lacquered bamboo. Face: heavy paper, painted in polychrome opaque watercolours.
History note: 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
Length: 36.9 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century
After
1801
-
Before
1900
Face
composed of
watercolours
( opaque)
paper
Sticks+guards
composed of
lacquer
bamboo
Guards
Accession number: O.53-1985
Primary reference Number: 118507
Old object number: 451
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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