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A Chinese embroidered silk robe, height 68 cm, 1920s.
A Chinese embroidered silk robe, height 68 cm, 1920s.
Black silk with polychrome silk embroideries of flowers, and waves. Light green silk lining.
Wear and dirt, minor stains and damages and minor loose threads.
Provenance
From the Collection of Ove Christian Lunn, Danish Diplomat and Consul General for Denmark in Shanghai 1928-1935. Lunn 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.