Loading

Fan

Unknown1840/1840

Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla

Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla
Sevilla, Spain

A folding telescopic fan, with double leaf of paper painted with tempera and ribs in gold leaf and figures with ivory applications on their faces and silk on their clothes. On the front and back, the decoration, referred to as "of a thousand faces", depicts courtly scenes with many people on terraces that look onto a garden in which different figures are conversing or strolling. These scenes are framed by a border pattern combining flowers and symbols.

It also has 14 ribs and two guardsticks, made in lacquered black bamboo and gilt decoration with small touches of red that also shows a garden scene with a group of figures enjoying fishing and talking by a pond. The scene is framed by a frieze with a series of Chinese symbols.

Show lessRead more
  • Title: Fan
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1840/1840
  • Location Created: Canton
  • Physical Dimensions: 29,2 x 54,5 cm
  • Type: Hand accessory
  • Rights: Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla
  • Medium: Bamboo, ivory, silk, painted, lacquered and gilt paper.
Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla

Get the app

Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Home
Discover
Play
Nearby
Favorites