Skip to main content

Folding fan

1725–50
Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniquePainted paper; tortoise shell; ivory; mother-of-pearl
DimensionsOverall: 27cm (10 5/8in.)
Other (open maximum): 41cm (16 1/8in.)
Credit LineOldham Collection
Accession number1976.200
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceOldham Collection; Gift of Esther Oldham to the MFA on June 9, 1976
Card case
first half of 19th century
Bag
mid 19th century
Tray with decoration of the hundred monkeys
Artist unknown, Japanese
second half of 19th century
Fan
Allen Fan Company
Late 19th to early 20th century
Fan
1740s
Fan
about 1740
Fan
1795–1800
Jurojin
Gyokushi
late 19th century
Cabriolet fan
1755–60
Fan with painted paper leaf
Late 18th–early 19th century