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A lavender blue embroidered silk female informal robe, late Qing dynasty, 19th century.

Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 430 - 1 910 EUR
1 630 - 2 170 USD
Hammer price
13 000 SEK
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Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A lavender blue embroidered silk female informal robe, late Qing dynasty, 19th century.

Embroidered with butterflies and flowers in peach, cream, blue and gray all on a lavender blue ground. Lined in a bright pink silk. Length arm to arm 125 cm. Height back 131 cm.

Wear.

Provenance

Purchased at Bukowskis S195, lot no 128.

Property of a private Finnish Collection.

The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 2, a part of the textile collection.

Exhibitions

Compare with a robe like this in another colour, Christies, lot 1239. 18 MAY 2012 | Live auction 6074. Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles.