En blå tygkläd ask som innehåller en sommarhatt med konisk bamburam som är klädd i siden väv, dekorerad med fransar av vridet siden, blå kant. Krönt av en ämbetsmannaknapp i mässing som indikerar 7-8 åttonde rang. Ytterligare en svart siden höst hatt med stel kant, vridna siden band i rött, krönt av glas knopp som indikerar 5 rang. Insidan med etikett som berättar för oss om ägarens namn och efternamn. Askens höjd 25 cm. Diameter hattask 35 cm. Den mindre boxen med en fjäder. Längd 35 cm. Mått ask 41x3,6x5 cm.
Slitage, skador.
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 Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 2, a part of the textile collection.
Compare with a set sold at Christies, Lot 114, the Imperial Wardrobe, 19 Mars 2008.
Compare also with a hat in the collection of the British Museum, donated by: James Edge-Partington. Acquisition date
1909. Registration number
1909,0609.1.a-c