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10 Yuan Fan Paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Fan-shaped flan bearing the national title 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China) inscribed along the upper curved edge in Chinese characters. The denomination 10元 appears at the right, with the date 1999 positioned centrally in the lower field. A finely engraved motif of orchids and bamboo in the classical Chinese brush-painting style occupies the central field, evoking the aesthetic of Ming and Qing dynasty fan paintings. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中华人民共和国 1999 10元 |
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This piece belongs to a sixteen-coin series the People's Bank of China issued across 1999–2000 reproducing fan paintings — a format distinct from scroll or album leaf work, in which the composition is specifically designed for the curved trapezoidal field of a folding or rigid fan. Fan painting reached its technical peak under the Southern Song court but saw an extraordinary revival among Ming and Qing literati collectors, who prized mounted fan leaves as independent art objects rather than functional accessories.
KM#1278 is one of several issues in the series struck with frosted relief against a mirrored field, a finish that proved particularly well-suited to reproducing ink-wash gradation.