Description
bordered with an ivory-coloured band woven with stylised flowerheads and ruyiheads, and a dark blue band woven with peonies and eternal knots, the interior lined with animal fur; together with an OFFICIAL'S HAT, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY, with a single-eye peacock feather plume mounted with a cylindrical jadeite fastener, 21cm wide (2)
Dimensions
106cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Rev. James A. Slimmon (1859 Whithorn-1948 Glasgow), a missionary with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in China in the Northeast Province of Hunan. See C.S. Leavenworth: Directory of Protestant Missionaries in China, Japan and Korea, page 9.