A Chinese export fan with black lacquered wooden sticks, late C19th

Code: 250406

A Chinese export (Cantonese) folding paper fan with black lacquered wooden sticks, embellished with gold paint showing a garden scene, and a paper leaf.  The back and front of each leaf have a blue background and are painted with many ivory-faced figures indoors and in a balustraded garden. Length of guard sticks: 28.7 cm (excluding pivot pin) (11.3”)

These fans were brought back from China by Westerners as souvenirs in the late 19^th and early 20^th century.

Date: second half of the Noneteenth Century

Condition: the wooden sticks are in excellent condition. There are a number of splits to the paper along the folds. No box.