A RARE CHINESE 'DA QING YITONG NIAN SAN SHENG YUDI QUAN TU' MAP FOLDING FAN
清 約1870年 大清一統二十三省輿地全圖折扇 設色紙本 成扇

A RARE CHINESE WOODBLOCK FOLDING FAN OF THE 'DA QING YITONG NIAN SAN SHENG YUDI QUAN TU' MAP OF THE UNITED QING PROVINCES
Qing Dynasty, Probably Shanghai, Circa 1870

清 約1870年 大清一統二十三省輿地全圖折扇 設色紙本 成扇

The rare folding fan, enclosing a woodblock map titled 'Da Qing Yitong Nian San Sheng Yudi Quan Tu', the map of the Empire of the Unified twenty-three provinces of the Great Qing Dynasty, on the front of the fan, depicting at the center China with the Great Wall snaking across the North Western provinces, to the South the islands of Hainan, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and Japan to the East, the map of the world inset on the lower left, the reverse of the fan there are all the listed provinces and the distances between towns and further information regarding major towns and cities, the guards made of bamboo, signed by the owner of Moxiang Guan (Hall of Fragrance of the Ink), Shenjiang, Shanghai, painted in Lingzhi Tang.

32cm high; 46cm wide

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PROVENANCE:

Santos, London

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NOTE:

Please note similar fans houses in the Library of Congress, Washington. D. C., acquired for the Library’s collections in 1934 which forms part of a special collection of Chinese cartographic materials known as the Hummel Collection. The collection was named after Dr. Arthur William Hummel, the former Chief of Orientalia Division (now Asian Division).