Figure of a Beauty Holding a Face Cover Fan (pien mien)

1831-1899

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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)

Collection installation, "Asia. Asia in the West," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-

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