Maker: Unknown
Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with the immortal Chokaro in a landscape with pine and lake, releasing his magic horse from the gourd; reverse: with a fruiting spray of? cotoneaster. Guards: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome). Guards: bamboo, lacquered and pierced. Sticks: lacquered bamboo. Face: heavy paper, painted, obverse; in polychrome opaque watercolours and gold; reverse: in polychrome opaque watercolours on a mica- dressing, with scattered gold.
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: 31.2 cm
Width: 9.0 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.55-1985
Primary reference Number: 118509
Old object number: 453
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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