Lot 18
DARK-BLUE-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED LADY'S ROBE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£756
Description
清 石青地刺繡花蝶紋對襟女衫
embroidered with mirror-image of scattered butterflies and floral sprays against a midnight blue ground
Dimensions
139cm across sleeves; 109cm high
Provenance
Private English collection, London; acquired by current owner’s great-aunt Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) during her honeymoon trip in Asia around 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.