Chinese Art


















An export lacquer and paper fan in painted box


19th centuryThe guard sticks and wands in black and gold lacquer with designs of figures spaced by flowers, the double-sided painted paper fan decorated with 'thousand faces' scene, the figures with applied silk robes and ivory faces to one side, the other with bat-and-hoop-framed cartouches of landscape and figures spaced by precious objects.Guards 27.5cm long, and in painted silk box (2).