Folding fan painted with spring scene, Utagawa Kunihisa
Record status
Individual type · partial
Folding fan painted with spring scene is held by Chester Beatty (Ireland), attributed to Utagawa Kunihisa. Description supplied by the holding institution: Folding fan with spring scene painted in ink and colours on paper by Utagawa Kunihisa in Japan, c.
1870. The fan's ivory guards and ojime bead are decorated with high-relief Shibayama inlay. The collection record gives material recorded as Paper (material); Ivory (material); measurements 404 mm x 650 mm (height x width). Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Paper (material); Ivory (material)
- Dimensions
- 404 mm x 650 mm (height x width)
Identification
- Europeana id
- /1100/4259
- Museum attribution
- Utagawa Kunihisa
- Museum object name
- Folding fan painted with spring scene
- Holding institution
- Chester Beatty
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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