ANTIQUE JAPANESE JAPAN HANDFAN BRISE FAN CALLIGRAPHY BAMBOO PAINTING 1900

Description

An antique Japanese brise handfan,
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xquisite hand painted details throughout the gouache paper with elaborate scene on a side and calligraphy in gold ink on another.
32 bamboo rods. Signed by the artist.
Dimensions:
26 cm long the bamboo rods.
46 cm in extended position.
Condition: good for its age, with minor signs of wear, no restorations and no cracks in the rods.
PROVENANCE:
From the Collection of Ove Christian Lunn, Danish Diplomat and Consul General for Denmark in Shanghai 1928-1935.
Lunn had an exciting diplomatic career and was posted 1910-18 in Oslo, 1918-24 in San Francisco, 1924-28 Melbourne and then finally Shanghai 1928-35.
He died one week after returning to Copenhagen in 1935.
His wife, Ruth moved in to a house in Vedbaek, where the objects have been ever since.
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