Maker: Unknown
Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with two figures in the costume of nobles, seated under cherry (?) trees by a stream; reverse: with five flying cranes. Guards: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome). Guards: bamboo, red-lacquered and pierced. Sticks: red lacquered bamboo. Face: paper with simulated leather grain, painted in ink and polychrome opaque watercolours on a gold ground.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter 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: 30.9 cm
Width: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
19th Century, Late#
After
1870
-
Before
1900
Face
composed of
watercolours
( opaque)
paper
ink
Sticks+guards
composed of
lacquer
bamboo
Guards
Accession number: O.57-1985
Primary reference Number: 118511
Old object number: 455
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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