ALTARFÖRHÄNGE, broderat siden. Fragment. Kina sen Qingdynasti. 66,5 x 213-231,5 cm.
Broderier i silke, gul- och vitmetalltrådar. Mörkblå botten med tio polykroma drakmedaljonger och bred bård med femkloiga drakar bland moln jagande den brinnande pärlan över vågor och det heliga berget. Fodrat.
Smärre fläckar och skador.
Proveniens
From the Collection of Ove Christian Lunn, Danish Diplomat and Consul General for Denmark in Shanghai 1928-1935. Ove Christian had an exciting diplomatic career and was posted 1910-18 in Oslo, 1918-24 in San Francisco, 1924-28 Melbourne and then finally Shanghai 1928-35. Unfortunately he died of pneumonia one week after returning to Copenhagen in 1935. His wife, Ruth moved in to a house in Vedbaek, where the objects have been ever since.
