Maker: Chen Yang
Screen fan inscribed with: 'Yun shan cang cang jiang shui jui jui xien sheng/ ji feng shan gao ming change/ Chen yan Kan' ('The misty mountains are cold and vast, rivers and streams are in flood. The gentleman's usual mountain haunts grow higher and clearer'. Carved by Chen Yang. Decorated with a full-length three-quarter view of a standing fisherman. Stick: dark hard wood carved and inset with bamboo skin. Face: bamboo skin, laminated, carved in low relief and incised.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Width: 19.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century
After
1701
-
Before
1800
Stick
composed of
hard wood
( dark)
Stick+face
composed of
bamboo skin
Guards
Height 39.7 cm
Face
Sticks
Accession number: O.5-1985
Primary reference Number: 118421
Old object number: 419
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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