Chinese Export Hand Fan Manderin Thousand Faces Carved Sandalwood Canton

Name: Chinese Export Hand Fan Manderin Thousand Faces Carved Sandalwood Canton
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA701153
Availability: SoldOut

19th century

Sold by Andrew Nethercott Antiques

Description

Chinese Export 'thousand faces' boxed fan, circa 1850.

High quality double sided fan with carved and pierced sandalwood sticks and deeply carved guards.

The two paper leaves hand painted with figures in garden room setting, one side showing lady horse riders and a covered rickshaw.

The figures with well painted applied faces and silk clothes.

Good, clatter tight fan with insignificant light wear, central stick broken and glued where it enters the leaf, small leaf repair where some sticks enter.

The original tight sound fitted lacquer box with surface, edge and corner wear.

Length of fan closed 11" or 280mm.

Weight of fan 67 grams.

Gross weight 229 grams.

Declaration

Andrew Nethercott Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA701153

Dealers Internal Reference

200516

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Description

Chinese Export 'thousand faces' boxed fan, circa 1850.

High quality double sided fan with carved and pierced sandalwood sticks and deeply carved guards.

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The two paper leaves hand painted with figures in garden room setting, one side showing lady horse riders and a covered rickshaw.

Andrew Nethercott Antiques

fig 1. Chinese Export Hand Fan Manderin Thousand Faces Carved Sandalwood Canton

The figures with well painted applied faces and silk clothes.

Good, clatter tight fan with insignificant light wear, central stick broken and glued where it enters the leaf, small leaf repair where some sticks enter.

The original tight sound fitted lacquer box with surface, edge and corner wear.

Length of fan closed 11" or 280mm.

Weight of fan 67 grams.

Gross weight 229 grams.

Date of Manufacture

Andrew Nethercott Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Ref

SA701153

Dealers Internal Ref

200516

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