Lot 247 , AMENDMENT - Two Chinese counted stitch embroidered silk pouches, hebao, late Qing dynasty

AMENDMENT - Two Chinese counted stitch embroidered silk pouches, hebao, late Qing dynasty, the first woven in silk on gauze with Shou characters, and flower heads, within ruyi shaped clouds and lishui style stripes, the brown cords with pink glass beads in imitation of rose quartz, width 13.5cm, the second pouch woven in silk on gauze with a river landscape scene, the twin green cords with red enamelled porcelain Shou medallion beads in imitation of cinnabar lacquer, width 13cm, tiny holes

Provenance -
This item is one of many Chinese objects collected and owned by the eminent Moule family; who travelled from England to China as missionaries in the mid-1800s, and lived and worked there until the early 1920s. The items were subsequently passed down to their present-day English descendants, the Gurneys. The Ven. Dr Arthur Evans Moule (1836-1918) was a missionary in China for nearly fifty years and was Archdeacon of Mid-China. He was also a poet and wrote several notable books* about China. He and his wife had six sons, one of whom, William Augustus Handley Moule (1870-1946), was the headmaster of the CMS Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai for 34 years, as well as a first-class sportsman!

* Three of his major books are The Glorious Land (1891), New China and Old (3d ed., 1902), and Half a Century in China (1911).
£150-250

Condition:
The pouch with a landscape design has some occasional missing threads to the gauze and is a little grubby. The concertina to the neck is worn to the raised edges. The second pouch with Shou characters has some small holes to the counted stitch on one side and is a little grubby, otherwise in good condition.

Sold for £380