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1996.17.196.1

Folding fan [.1] boxed in a cardboard box [.2-.3]. The box lid is covered with a piece of fine paper with a central red stripe. There are two pieces of printed paper in the box [.4-.5]. The fan is signed. [LKG 23/09/2009]

1996.17.196.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Folding fan [.1] boxed in a cardboard box [.2-.3]. The box lid is covered with a piece of fine paper with a central red stripe. There are two pieces of printed paper in the box [.4-.5]. The fan is signed. [LKG 23/09/2009]
Long description
Folding fan [.1] boxed in a cardboard box [.2-.3]. The box lid is covered with a piece of fine paper with a central red stripe. There are two pieces of printed paper in the box [.4-.5]. The fan is signed. The guardsticks and feuntes are made of black dyed lengths of bamboo and are held together at the bottom with what appears to be a bamboo nail. The design inside is painted in black and grey ink, and the top edges of the fan and one of the upper most paper sides when folded is flecked with gold paint. The lid of the box is covered in fine paper with a red ringed stamp to the right of a column of three Japanese text symbols. There is a printed red strips across the middle and the ends of the box lid are both grey-green in colour. The interior of the box base has a cardboard support fixed across the middle into which the fan is placed. Of the two strips of paper, one is printed with Japanese text all in black ink [.4], the other [.5] has a bright vermillion background with white text symbols and a design showing a fan and woman's profile and her long black hair. [LKG 23/09/2009]
Geographical reference
Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Kyoto
Cultural groups
Japanese
Person
Maker Clifton Karhu
Field collector John Lowe
PRM source John Lowe
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1996
Date collected
By 1996
Acquisition information
Donated: 02/1996
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Pigment, Material Ink, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Glued, Process Printed, Process Nailed, Process Stamped
Dimensions
Length 380 mm, Width 62 mm, Length 377 mm, Width 90 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1996.17.196.1 Accession number: 1996.17.196.2 Accession number: 1996.17.196.3 Accession number: 1996.17.196.4 Accession number: 1996.17.196.5

Search terms: Fan, Picture and Graphic Art, Painting

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