Lot 586 , A pair of Chinese embroidered brocade panels and various printed scrolls etc.

A pair of Chinese embroidered brocade panels and various printed scrolls etc.
Estimate £40-60

Pair of red ground brocade and gold thread panels - fair; lower reaches somewhat stained and faded; printed scrolls - poor to fair with tears, crinkling and weakening of the paper.
Brocade panel 160cm
Longest scroll - 140cm

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China.


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Sold for £240