Lot 255 , Two Japanese woven silk wall hangings, late 19th century,

Two Japanese woven silk wall hangings, late 19th century, the first decorated with egrets on a pond, 138cm x 133cm, the second with birds on rocks amid clouds, 163cm x 148cm, together with and an embroidered silk family mon panel,
Estimate £150-250

Provenance: collected in Japan in the 1890's by Sir Henry Norman, an English journalist and Liberal politician; thence by family descent


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Sold for £300