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  • Folding fan. Suehiro Ogi. Unknown maker, Japan. Wide-ended folding fan, decorated, obverse: with lobed circular blue cartouches painted with chrysanthemum, orchid, bamboo, pine and prunus, on a red ground; reverse: similar, but red cartouches on a blue ground. Sticks: with modified cat's eye pattern (nekome). Guards: bamboo, lacquered and pierced. Sticks: lacquered bamboo. Face: heavy paper, painted in polychrome opaque watercolours. Length, whole, 36.9 cm, width, whole, 12.5 cm, after 1801 to before 1900. Kano School. Messel-Rosse Collection.
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