Antique chinese fan, export, mandarin, thousand faces

Description

For your consideration is an ancient Chinese export fan, also known as a Canton, Mandarin, or thousand faces fan. The fan was purchased approximately 20 years ago and framed in a custom made shadowbox. The Inside back of the framed box is black velvet. The front of the frame is kind of a brushed gold and there are Chinese latches attached to the frame for mounting on the wall. The sticks of the fans are lacquer painted with gold. There are no brakes in the fan sticks. I’m not sure of the material of the faces on the fan but each one is delicately painted. I do not remember what the backside of the fan design is but I suspect it is a bird or some flowers. There are no tears in the paper the breaks in the sticks. The size of the framed fan is 25 x 15 x 2.