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Maker/s	Unknown (maker)
Collection	Messel-Rosse Collection
Category	fans
Name	screen fan
Description	Decorated, face: with a soldier bearing a bow. Stick: ruyi form with florets. Stick: bone, carved and pierced, over blue cotton with traces of gold foil. Face: bamboo sheath, obverse, engraved with hot needle.
Production Place	Taiwan (maker) (place) China (maker) (country) Chinese (maker) (nationality)
Technique Description	Stick: bone, carved and pierced, over blue cotton with traces of gold foil. Face: bamboo sheath, obverse, engraved with hot needle.
Dimensions	height: (guards): 40.8 cm width: 21.3 cm
Period	19th century
Date	1867
Provenance	bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) 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
Inscriptions/Marks	inscription Position: front Method: burnt in Content: Daijian congjun bingyin qiaqiu fan jiezyuan/mulan congjun tu/(?) yu chikan jishu/Yi ? Zan bing xie. Seal ? Yi Zan. Language: chinese Translation: (lit. arrow girt common soldier) and (Imitating the plate showing Mu Lan as a common soldier from the "Mustard-seed" Garden, drawn on the skillful day of autumn (7th day of the 7th month) of the bingyin year (1867) Hi ? Zan at the Youth Bureau, Chikan. inscription Position: reverse Method: inscribed in ink Content: fan from Ta Kan Formosa/ Given by T. Walters (or poss. Watters) Esqr/Anno 1868 Language: english
Other Notes
Accession Number	O.39-1985 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 118450; Input Date: 2005-02-23 / Last Edit: 2011-01-27)

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