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A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 1
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 2
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 3
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 4
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 5
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 6
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 7
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 8
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 9
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 10
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 11
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 12
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 13
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 14
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 15
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 16
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 17
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 18
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 19
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 20
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 21
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 22
A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan 19th century and early 20th century (11) image 23
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A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan
19th century and early 20th century 

Fine Decorative Arts
3 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£700 - £1,000

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A collection of ten Japanese folding fans in tortoiseshell, bamboo and wood and lacquered and inlaid wood, some with painted silk or paper leaves, two of brisé form, together with a small Chinese export paper and bamboo folding fan

19th century and early 20th century 
The Japanese fans comprising a tortoiseshell example with lacquered guard sticks, the satinised paper leaf with a rustic figural landscape decoration, with ivory shibiyama ball corded silk tassel, a carved and pierced wood and ivory and mother of pearl inlaid example, the silk leaf painted with cranes, the guardsticks with bird, temple and musician decoration, with beaded silk tassel, three brisé examples, two of tortoiseshell, one with Shibayama decoration, the other of wood with gilt and silvered lacquered decoration with Shibayama inlaid ivory ball corded silk tassel and a wooden example, the leaf with gilt and silvered decoration of birds, bamboo, flowers and foliage, two bamboo and paper folding dance fans with colourful Iris and blossom and autumn leaf decoration, a bamboo and painted paper example, with lacquered guards, the corded tassel with ivory Shibayama plaque with insects, a Shibayama decorated bamboo example, the printed and embroidered silk leaf decorated with birds on flowering boughs, the guardsticks with mother of pearl, painted bone and hardstone inlaid decoration, a white wood folding brisé fan with painted rustic figural landscape decoration, the reverse with a flowering standard wisteria and pheasants, the small Chinese painted paper and bamboo fan with figural decoration on a black ground,
Various sizes, the largest, 30cm high, 55cm wide, the smallest, 20cm high, 34cm approximately (11)

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