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Decorated Fans
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Folding screens mounted with scattered fans, each painted on a piece of separate paper, were popular in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and their production continued into modern times. These screens were appreciated for displaying together a variety of small paintings in an attractive arrangement to suggest the image of fans floating through the air or on water.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDecorated Fans. early 17th century. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
