Japanese folding fan wrapper

An image of Fan Wrapper. Paper painted in ink, and polychrome opaque water-colours and gold, circa 1840-1850. Japanese. Possibly for O.15-1985.

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Fan Wrapper. Paper painted in ink, and polychrome opaque water-colours and gold, circa 1840-1850. Japanese. Possibly for O.15-1985.

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Accession Number: O.15A-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 714 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 372.58kB
Captured: 2009:09:03 16:20:37

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19th Century birds fan fans feathers floral flowers folding fan Japanese paper peacock peacock feather polychrome watercolour

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