{"product_id":"giuseppe-castiglione-lang-fan-18th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang - Fan - 18th century v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGiuseppe Castiglione (Lang - Fan - 18th century v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis design reproduces a painted folding fan from eighteenth-century China, shown as a black-and-white photograph that keeps the fan's pleated form and its fine painted detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fan opens into a radiating fan-shaped leaf, its pleats fanning outward from a single point. The painted surface carries a long-tailed bird perched on a branch and clusters of magnolia blossoms, with a leaf-and-branch pattern running across the leaf. The inscribed guard sticks, styled after bamboo, frame the composition at its edges. The palette is tonal throughout: light grey, mid grey and charcoal, so the drawn line and the shading of feathers and petals carry the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fan is a worked object as much as a painting. Bird and blossom subjects were a staple of Chinese court painting, and the magnolia brings associations of spring and renewal into the composition. The attribution to Giuseppe Castiglione places the work in the 18th century, when this Jesuit painter served at the Qing court and brought European training in naturalistic observation together with Chinese brush traditions. Fans of this period were made to be held, displayed and given, which is why the painted surface reads as a finished miniature rather than a background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eOn the Kiss-Cut Sticker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the fan shape of the design becomes the edge of the object itself. The pleats and the folded leaf stay whole, and the bird and blossoms sit inside a silhouette that matches the painting. Placed on a laptop lid or the cover of a journal, it reads as a small fan opened onto the surface, a piece of court art set against modern everyday objects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523042619610,"sku":"54744090473472455071","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523042652378,"sku":"57640523267592554063","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523042685146,"sku":"95945845290291441141","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523042717914,"sku":"19415889650416519294","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523042750682,"sku":"30140371927519217850","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523042783450,"sku":"29819698161135706257","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523042816218,"sku":"28352043786396994424","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523042848986,"sku":"28738668484601101223","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/giuseppe-castiglione-lang-fan-18th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-unknown-alt-3.webp?v=1787945078","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/giuseppe-castiglione-lang-fan-18th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}