Lot 17
SKY-BLUE-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED LADY'S JACKET
LATE QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清末民初 天藍地刺繡花果紋對襟外套
embroidered with colourful blossoming flowers and fruits all over, hemmed with ivory and bright blue coloured bands with similar decoration, the wide short sleeves ending decorated with phoenix on blue ground, with a later attached fur collar
Dimensions
133cm wide across sleeves; 100cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by current owner’s great-aunt Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) during her honeymoon trip in Yokohama in 1910. Etta May Gubbins married in 1909 at Kilmallock, Ireland to Captain Burston Beresford Gubbins (1876-1929), The 13th Hussars.
May Gubbins, nee May Gibson, was the eldest of the three daughters of Edmund Gibson who was born at Quernmore Park, near Lancaster in 1824, went out to New Zealand with his brother Wilson and staked a claim to about 20,000 acres of land in South Island and died at Otago in 1886.