Lot 106
CHINESE IVORY-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED PLEATED SKIRT
LATE QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
Auction: 10 September 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
清末民初 象牙白地蝶戀花紋馬面裙
the front and back main panels worked with flowering peonies with playful Buddhist lions, smaller pleated panels with butterflies and flowers, all on an ivory white ground, topped with a beige cotton waistband
Dimensions
101cm high
Provenance
The collection of the late David McGavin (born 1901). Coauthor of Bibles For China: An Account of Over 80 Years' Service. In Shanghai during the 1920s and later in Hong Kong in 1949 as a missionary. Thence by direct descent.
傳教士麥興仁（1901年生）舊藏，後家族遞藏；1920年代始於上海擔任傳教士，後於1949年遷至香港。《Bibles For China: An Account of Over 80 Years' Service》合著者。