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Lot 270
A Westwood/McLaren checked wool dress, 'Witches' collection, Autumn-Winter, 1983-84, World's End labelled, with pointed sleeves, low scooped neck, front pleats held in place by ceramic toggles, large pointed, draped pocket to front skirt side, bust approx 86-92cm, 34-36in CONDITION REPORT: good condition, two very small darned repairs to lower rear skirt
Lot 34
A Chinese red leather chest and cover of rectangular form, decorated with floral motifs and loop handles, 80 x 64 x 36 cm Prov: The interior cover with a Chinese four-line inscription beside an old, but un-dated, note, written in English. Whilst this handwritten text cannot be substantiated, it very specifically refers to the looting of the Yuan Ming Yuan Palace in 1860, concluding: 'this lacquered leather box looted'. The destruction of Yuan Ming Yuan during the reign of The Xianfeng Emperor (1851-1861), really characterised the disorder and chaos of this era which had already suffered from the excess of The Taiping Rebellion of 1851-54. Indeed, the Taiping insurrection proved so damaging, that the Imperial ceramic factories at Jingdezhen were utterly destroyed, and the population there massacred or dispersed. Xianfeng was not, therefore, in a confident position to outwit the European forces which arrived in the capital, resulting in huge looting from the Imperial Inventory. The entry of British, Indian and French forces into Peking on October 13th, 1860 was the culmination of an expedition that had commenced with an action at the Taku Forts the previous August. Significantly, this was the first occasion in which rifled artillery was first used by British forces. Unhappily, the subsequent diplomatic negotiation between the British and Chinese leadership at Tientsin was unsuccessful, precipitating further actions at Chang-kia-wan and Pa-li-chian. The British troops, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Hope Grant, and the French troops commanded by General Montauban, thus entered the capital where objects from the Imperial Collection at Yuan-Ming-Yuan became an obvious attraction, eventually finding their way into Western collections. Condition Report The damage includes areas of various deterioration and loss to both exterior and interior.
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