En väska broderad med en fladdermus bland ruyimolnformationer samt tecken för wan fu och wan shou, framgång och långt liv, omgivet av vågkant, med band med gröna skulpterade stenar. Mått 11x11 cm. Två ovala fodral med siliserat broderat mönster. Längd 15.5 -16 cm.
Slitage.
Proveniens
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 Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being a part of the textile collection.
Utställningar
Compare with eye-glass cases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art like this, dating them to 18th/19th century. For example, Credit Line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929. Object Number: 30.75.682 and Object Number: 30.75.691 from the same collection.
Övrig information
The fretwork incorporates the broken cross, or swastika—an ancient symbol in Asia that is associated in China with the character wan, which denotes the number ten thousand and symbolizes longevity.
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