Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami drawing on basket The base is red painted

The base is red painted wood

I especially like that it has indeed been hunted over

I just love the open beak with pale pink inside (can't you just hear it chirping

8 11/16” x 7 1/8”

slightly bleeding

Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami drawing on basket The base is red paintedI 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