Guangzhou workshops
Figure of a Beauty Holding a Face Cover Fan (pien mien)
1831-1899
Scroll
Guangzhou workshops
Figure of a Beauty Holding a Face Cover Fan (pien mien)
1831-1899
Physical Qualities
Ivory, 25.4 cm. (10 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rhoda Oakley, Baltimore
Object Number
1997.274
Tall slender woman holds raised pien mien or face cover fan in her left hand. Her hair is drawn up into a soft top-knot pushed forward. A long tasseled cord hangs from the end of the handle of the fan; another, tied at her waist, is decorated with a butterfly.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1997; Rhoda Sparler Oakley, Baltimore; from father, John J. Sparler (may have purchased from Lilian Nassau, New York, possibly in the 1950s)
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Oriental Works of Art, Weschler's, Washington, DC, 10/26/1990 sale, no. 178. Fine Asian Works of Art, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 5/14/1997 sale, no. 1806 [sold for $1,725.00]
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 12/2/1997, no. 64.
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 12/2/1997, no. 64.
Inscribed: None
On View at the BMA
