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Slide 1: 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.
Slide 2: • 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.
Slide 3: • 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.
Slide 4: • 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.
Slide 5: • Fan-cover with painting and calligraphy and craft of fan-ribs are the reflection of artistic value