Collecting and Appreciating Folding Fan

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Collecting and Appreciating Folding Fan

• The collection of fan painting and folding
  fan starts at the same time. However, it was
  scl-dom seen of folding fan produced in Ming and
  early Qing Dynasties.

• When collecting folding fan, for one thing we
  must find fans painted and inscribed by the
  famous painters and calligraphers, for another we
  must have the ability to recognize the worth of
  masterpiece by artists. Fan-cover must be full
  and neat, painting and calligraphy must be clear,
  the price goes down greatly if it had dust,
  stains, pigment losses, flaking pigments, and
  creases or tears. When this happened, fan-cov-ers
  needs to be removed from its fan ribs and mounted
  again after cleaning and repairing have been
  done.

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• Folding fan should be stored in box made of
  wood to protect it from mildew. The best way to
  prevent moths is to use insecticide like
  Moth-balls in box a week before excited insects
  (Chinese season) in spring to kill moths when
  they are eggs. In autumn, the room can be
  deco-rated with unfolded fans on the table for a
  few days, which is also the important step for
  kill-ing moths and mildew by sunlight.

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• A folding fan consists of fan painting and
  cal-ligraphy and fan-rib engraved with beautiful
  design. It can be appreciated respectively or in
  a whole. Fan-cover with neat and exquisite
  painting and calligraphy is the best. Fan-rib is
  engraved with elegant design or folk-custom
  design. The excellent fan painting and
  cal-ligraphy supplemented each other. We mainly
  collect folding fan, silk mounted on a rigid
  frame in a small round or oval shape and paper
  pressed into folds with tihin sticks of bamboo
  inserted for support, considering whether the fan
  is real, exquisite, and new.

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• The Chinese fan is closely connected to
  calligraphy, painting, carving, design and
  various other genres of fine arts and had
  developed into a genre of colorful fan-art.

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• Fan-cover with painting and calligraphy and
  craft of fan-ribs are the reflection of artistic
  value

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