Fan Case

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	China (made)

Fan case of carved wood with sunk panels to hold the fans, T.20&A-1936. The lid is inscribed in Chinese 'By Royal Command Pair of fans containing landscapes and human figures'.

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Category	Accessories
Object type	Fan case
Materials and techniques	Carved wood Wood Carving
Brief description	Fan case, carved wood, China, Qing dynasty, 1721-1725.
Physical description	Fan case of carved wood with sunk panels to hold the fans, T.20&A-1936. The lid is inscribed in Chinese 'By Royal Command Pair of fans containing landscapes and human figures'.
Dimensions	Length: 13.75in Width: 3.5in
Style	Qing
Credit line	Given by Mrs Alec Tweedie
Object history	Registered File number 2125/1936.
Associated objects	T.20-1936 (Part) T.20A-1936 (Part)
Bibliographic references	Rose Kerr (ed.), TT Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art pp.194-195 William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Eight dynasties of Chinese painting : the collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1980, no. 261, pp.353-354.
Collection	East Asia Collection
Accession number	T.20B-1936

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O457682/fan-case-unknown/

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