Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami spinning top Box is 6 1/8" l

Box is 6 1/8" l x 3 1/4" w x 2 1/4" t

I love it just an object

7 7/8" widest diameter

This stencil painted deck (producing the great bleeding edges around the suits) is one of the earliest decks on which the court cards display a "modern rationalised design" - i

but oh the bliss

Wonderful Antique Hand-painted, Double Side Fan with Frogs, Moon, Owl, Origami spinning top Box is 6 1/8" lI 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