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Description: | Chinese or Japanese fan. Ivory guards inlaid with mother of pearl orange blossom, pink coral buds, engraved, stained branches, and at the head of each guard is inlaid a tiny metal and resin burd. The 28 sticks are of very fine, carved cane, the leaves being of fibre covered silk, painted on one side with a fishing scene in grey's, blues and greens, and on the reverse with a flower garden full of iris, roses, peonies, bamboo, lilies and orange blossom, with a large gold painted central area, inscribed with chinese figuring. | License: | http://www.beamish.org.uk/terms-of-use | Subjects: | SHIC - Personal life - Costume - Accessories not elsewhere specified | Source: | Beamish | Identifier: | http://collections.beamish.org.uk/search... | Go to resource |
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