Tang Imperial 25 Pearl Fan Shoulder Bag

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In classical China, the folding fan was never simply a tool for keeping cool. It was a statement of refinement. Scholars carried it. Court ladies held it. Painters decorated it. To open a fan in the right company was to begin a conversation without words: about taste, about education, about the kind of person you chose to be.

The Pearl Fan Shoulder Bag takes that geometry and opens it fully. Where the Pearl Fan Saddle is precise and architectural, this bag is generous and unhurried: a fan held open at its widest, the ribs spread, the whole form at ease. It is the same cultural language, spoken in a different register.

The Design — 折扇 (Zhéshàn)

The bag's silhouette is the fan at full arc: a wide dome that rises from a structured base to a gently scalloped upper edge, the entire body quilted with fan-rib stitch lines that radiate from the centre outward. There is no printed motif, no painted surface. The cultural reference is built into the form itself.

A continuous row of pearls follows the scalloped seam where the upper panel meets the body of the bag, tracing the inner arc of the fan's open edge. In classical Chinese aesthetics, pearls carry the qualities of the person who wears them: purity, wisdom, and the kind of quiet confidence that requires no elaboration. Here, they mark the boundary between the bag's two planes with the same precision as a couture trim on a court collar.

Signature Details

• Pearl Bead Top Handle: The top handle is a full strand of pearl beads, alternating between smooth round pearls and irregular baroque-shaped beads, the same variation found in fine pearl jewellery. It is smooth against the hand, substantial in weight, and entirely the wrong thing to call a bag handle. It is a pearl strand that also carries a bag. The distinction matters.
• Fan-Rib Quilting: The entire body is stitched with raised lines that radiate outward from the centre base, replicating the geometry of a folding fan's bone structure across a full dome surface. Light catches differently across each panel as the bag moves, giving the leather a quiet, shifting quality.
• Pearl Trim Along the Inner Arc: A row of pearls runs along the scalloped seam at the bag's upper edge, following the fan's open arc in a continuous, evenly spaced line. Elegant, luminous, and applied with the same care as the pearl handle it echoes.
• Gold Rivet Base Protection: Four gold dome rivets are set into the base corners of the bag, protecting the leather at its most vulnerable points. Unlike piping, which traces the edge, rivets lift the bag's base clear of surfaces entirely. A structural detail that is also, incidentally, a considered one.

Premium Materials

• Split Leather Body — The exterior is crafted in split leather in off-white cream, the same warm ground as the Pearl Fan Saddle. The tone sits between white and parchment: softly luminous, and a natural foil for the pearl detailing throughout.
• Woven Fabric Lining — The interior is finished in woven textile with the brand pattern woven into the lining itself, visible only to the person who opens it.
• Chain-and-Leather Detachable Strap — The shoulder strap combines a gold link chain with a cream leather panel and gold buckle hardware, multi-layer electroplated and polished. Adjustable length for single shoulder or crossbody wear.

Product Details

• Style: Tang Imperial 25 Pearl Fan Shoulder Bag
• Dimensions: 25.5cm (W) × 18.5cm (H) × 9cm (D)
• Exterior: Split leather, off-white cream
• Lining: Woven fabric with brand pattern
• Hardware: Multi-layer electroplated gold, gold dome rivets at base
• Top handle: Pearl bead strand (round and baroque mixed)
• Carry modes: Top handle / single shoulder / crossbody
• Shoulder strap: Detachable chain-and-leather; adjustable
• Closure: Top zip
• Interior: Main compartment, card slot pocket
• Capacity: Fits an iPhone
• Colour available: Off-white Cream (米白)

What This Bag Is Really For

The Pearl Fan Saddle is a bag with a point of view. The Pearl Fan Shoulder Bag is a bag with room for one. It carries more, closes with a zip, and arrives with a pearl handle that does most of the talking before anything else is said.

This is the bag for the days that need carrying properly. For the woman who prefers her cultural references structural rather than printed, her silhouette considered rather than minimal, and her handle to be, specifically and without apology, a strand of pearls.

Authenticity & Craft

Every Tang Heritage piece is produced in limited quantities. The Pearl Fan Shoulder Bag is inspected at each stage of production: the quilting, the pearl setting along the inner arc, and the pearl bead handle are each completed and reviewed before the next begins. Each bag is inspected before it leaves the workshop. When a design is retired, it does not return.

Every Tang Heritage piece comes with a metal authenticity card and a unique engraved serial number, verifiable directly with us at any time.

The folding fan has been a mark of refinement in China for over a thousand years. This is simply the form it takes now.