Folding Fan

29-137-3

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 29-137-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Date Made 19th Century - 1912
Section Asian
Materials Ivory
Iconography Birds | Animals | Flowers | Birds | Pagoda | Houses | Trees | Human Figure
Description

Ivory folding fan. All over design of human figures with houses and foliage. While each spoke is a separate unit, the grouping of the center spokes from a pattern. End spokes with human figures on balconies andunder flowering trees, with a conventionalized floral register below, all in very high relief.

Length 22 cm
Width 30 cm
Credit Line Purchased from S. Krauss, 1912

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