Landscape and Harbour scene: M.204-2015

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Landscape and Harbour scene

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Folding fan

Description

Folding fan. Depicting a landscape and harbour landscape scene, possibly Osaka. Paper leaf a woodcut, on bamboo sticks.

Notes

History note: From the collection of Martin Willcocks, formerly catalogued as Chinese, Harbour at Hangchou. Lennox Boyd Estate. Christie's no. 359

Legal notes

Accepted by H. M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Lennox Boyd Estate

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2015-04-27) by H.M. Government

Dating

19th Century
Production date: circa AD 1870

Note

The print on this leaf is typically Chinese. However, the calligraphy is Japanese and the sticks are of a type normally found on Japanese fans. It is likely that the fan was made for the inauguration of the Koraibashi Bridge in Osaka in 1870, the second iron bridge to be built in Japan.

This fan forms part of the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015. The collection of over 600 fans ranges in date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and in type from bejewelled and hand-painted court and wedding fans, to printed mass-produced advertising fans, aide-memoire fans, mourning fans and children’s fans.