Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami oil on board painting with a forged metal blade

with a forged metal blade held to the wooden body with two tangs

and the board is teak

Nice and weighty

and really nice perched on the desk

and a nice rectangular form to the the links

Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami oil on board painting with a forged metal bladeI found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of a Miss Fanny Allen's collection, to whom another of them was inscribed as a gift in 1872. I must say this large one is my favorite Japanese I believe, hand painted with this fabulous watchful, perched owl, silver moon behind it, and these two great frog standing on lily pads. And then on reverse, continuing the motif, flying frogs rendered as origami in