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Screen with Scattered Fans 扇面散図屛風
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
After fans were painted, they were usually mounted to framework made of wood or bamboo that the owner could fold compactly when the fan was not in use. Occasionally, fans were pasted to folding screens such as this one. Here the fan framework is painted on the gold leaf to resemble bamboo or lacquered wood.
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Credit lineScreen with Scattered Fans 扇面散図屛風. early 17th century. Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
