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TWO SILK APRON SKIRTS AN OTTOMAN EMBROIDERED RED A SMALL COLLECTION OF
19th/20th century VELVET TUNIC EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILES
The first woven in gilt and coloured threads 19th century 19th/20th century
with dragons and phoenix amongst bats, With full skirt and double arm openings, richly Comprising: three apron skirts; an
cloud scrolls and scattered peony flowers, woven in metallic thread with entwined foliate embroidered blue-ground jacket; a red-
above crashing waves, on a teal silk ground; and scrolling linear designs. ground wall hanging and a kesi dragon robe
the second of pleated red silk, woven with 128cm (50.1/2in) long. fragment mounted between sleeve bands.
borders of birds amongst flowering and The jacket: 100cm (39 3/8in) long (6).
blossoming plants on black silk grounds. £800 - 1,200
The largest 96cm (37.3/4in) long. (2). CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000 £1,500 - 2,500
CNY13,000 - 22,000 HK$15,000 - 24,000
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000 Provenance
Acquired in China circa 1906-1909 by the 6th
Viscount Bangor, Colonel Maxwell Ward, and
thence by descent.

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