DETAILS
- Artist
- Shen Zhou
- Date
- 1493
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 6 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (16.5 x 47 cm)
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