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Lot Description: A Selection of Interesting 20th Century Chinese and Japanese Fans , starting with a wood example with simple bands of piercing to the gorge and quite a modern linear textile fabric design to each side of the narrow paper leaf. Finished with a simple cord adorned with a green bead. Together with a folding fan with narrow cotton leaf featuring mountain ranges, the gorge with a drawing of an elder and servant passing a stylised tree. The verso has a gorge design of small birds pecking for food. Both sides have calligraphy; a light wood extensively pierced brisé fan, with the addition of a band of sunflowers. Both sides alike; another wood brisé, with folding action, decoratively pierced and featuring a rural scene with pagodas and stylised trees, the verso with a bunch of grapes, and leaves; a wood fan, painted black, the sticks serpentine and shaped at the shoulder, which is actually where the fan sticks pivot to fold in two, and gilded. The paper leaf is painted with a lady dressed in a blue kimono walking in front of water, habitation behind. The verso, in pastel shades, has the effect of haphazardly applied glitter; a paper cockade fan, the leaf a simple design of clouds, with wood sticks to the centre, the smooth handle with a mechanism for folding the fan closed; a fabric fan with mountain scene, the snowy cap in the tallest peak being worked in silk thread; and a cockade fan on dark wood, the handle smooth, the leaf paper with a design of rolling clouds, the handle in two sections clipping together to hold open. (7) Condition Report: . Generally all good used condition. ARR: Categories: Fans