Lot 107
CHINESE YELLOW-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 黃地刺繡蝶戀花紋馬面裙
the front and back main panels finely worked with flowering peonies with butterflies, smaller pleated panels with scattered similar decorations, all on a bright yellow ground, topped with a blue cotton waistband
Dimensions
96cm 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。