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FOLDING LEAF FAN

Creator(s):

Currently in storage


About this object

Folding leaf fan consisting of ten narrow, lacquered, wooden sticks and a wide painted paper leaf. The leaf is painted identically on both the obverse and the reverse. The paper has a gold marbled background, a painted tree trunk, and either juniper or pine branches and needles with dots of blue and yellow. The sticks on either end are sewn onto the paper leaf with white thread. At the head of the fan is white metal pivot.

Object name:
FOLDING LEAF FAN
Made from:
wood --lacquer --paper --paint --metal
Made in:
Japan
Date made:
20th c.
Size:
11 ½” H x 20” W

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
2014.3.9
Signature marks:
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973