- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- paper; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0398 a,b
- Description
- Two simple, painted fans with large accordian pleats on wooden vanes. (a) 4.0x33.5x2.0, bamboo vanes, in narrow cardboard box . Long, natural bamboo vanes are carved through with three long ellipses at the top and hinged together at the bottom with a black pin. Fan opens to an arc 57.0 cm across…
1 image
- Title
- Hand Fan
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- paper; wood
- Description
- Two simple, painted fans with large accordian pleats on wooden vanes. (a) 4.0x33.5x2.0, bamboo vanes, in narrow cardboard box . Long, natural bamboo vanes are carved through with three long ellipses at the top and hinged together at the bottom with a black pin. Fan opens to an arc 57.0 cm across and is painted with a tree in blossom, and flowers by a stream on both sides. Background on one side gold on other silver. Vanes, except for outer two, are sandwiched between paper forming two sides of fan. (b) 6.2x37.9x2.2, black bamboo vanes, five simple long strips of bamboo are hinged together at the bottom with a pin. Fan opens as (a) to an arc 41.0 cm across and is painted on front with design of overlapping large green and yellow leaves on brown stems. Back is printed with irregular design of small silver squares to which three vanes are glued directly. In a long fitted box with Japanese writing and chop marks.
- Subject
- households
- accessory
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0398 a,b
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.