Fan is opened to reveal a black base and dark gold backdrop. Overlaid on the gold are many overlapping ciricular shapes, varying in color from blue, red, and lighter gold. Some circular shapes have multiple colors. Inside these circles are various shapes, including a 'plus' sign, flowers, and checkers.

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2016	We acquired this object. We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2023	You found it!

Folding Fan, 1880–1900

This is a Folding fan. It is dated 1880–1900 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is printed cotton leaf on obverse with dyed and glazed cotton leaf on reverse; narrow woven binding at edge of leaf; ebonized wood sticks with wood slips; metal loop and bone washer at the rivet.. It is a part of the Textiles department.

This fan melds two Japanese import crazes of the Aesthetic Movement—fans, which were used in both fashion and interior decoration, and ceramics—through its printed pattern of overlapping plates with motifs of cranes, peonies, and lotus blossoms. The W.T. Copeland and Sons plate [06] nearby, whose scalloped rim suggests the curves of lotus petals, depicts fans in its central pattern.

This object was donated by Heather Sandifer. It is credited Gift of Heather Sandifer.

Small, cream-colored circular plate with up-curved lobed rim. At the center of the plate are two, cream-colored fans with brown handles. They take up most of the plate. Inside the left fan are three birds, two perched on a small tree and one in flight. The right fan is mostly covered by the first, but in the small space of it we see is a butterfly in flight, as well as a few blades of grass. Outside of the two fans are flowers blossoming out of the borders of the fans.

Plate (England)
glazed earthenwarewith transfer-printed decoration.
Gift of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Paul F. Walter Collection.
1999-42-15

Katagami, Fans and Flowers on Trellis
cut mulberry paper treated with persimmon tannin and silk thread.
Gift of Helen Snyder.
1976-103-122

Katagami, Fans and Chrysanthemums
cut mulberry paper treated with persimmon tannin and silk thread.
Gift of Helen Snyder.
1976-103-207

Its dimensions are

H x W: 34.3 × 61.6 cm (13 1/2 × 24 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Folding Fan, 1880–1900; printed cotton leaf on obverse with dyed and glazed cotton leaf on reverse; narrow woven binding at edge of leaf; ebonized wood sticks with wood slips; metal loop and bone washer at the rivet.; H x W: 34.3 × 61.6 cm (13 1/2 × 24 1/4 in.); Gift of Heather Sandifer; 2016-9-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Japonism.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/BKAuF/
Accession Number 2016-9-1
Object ID 404583215