Fan. A hand-painted fan, Chinese, mid 19th century

Fan. A hand-painted fan, Chinese, mid 19th century, folding double-sided paper fan, painted with a variety of vignettes, including landscapes, interior scenes, courtly figures, the latter with applied painted ivory faces, rubbed, with some splitting and fraying to folds, mounted on lacquered and gilt pierced wooden sticks, with tissue paper inserts painted with floral decoration, 21.5cm (8.5ins), contained in a lacquered wooden fan box, hinged lid decorated with gilt flower spray, opening to reveal blue silk lining painted with a bird and flowers (slightly frayed at one end)

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A highly decorative and finely detailed fan in accompanying box.