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A HAN CHINESE WOMAN'S SILK SKIRT 'QUN', QING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Provenance: from the private collection of a major of royal Italian army in China until 1903
98 cm high
98 cm high
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
Made of amaranth silk woven finely embroidered on the front panel with a dense multicolored flowers, the pleats similarly embroidered with further stems and branches of flowers and butterflies, all within borders embroidered in three shades of blue (sanlan) with similar decoration ending with fur, the waistband of creamy cotton. In good conditions.
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