Fine white silk coverlet

Recent acquisition

Fine white silk coverlet

China, c. 1730
230cm x 216cm excluding fringe

A fine white silk bed coverlet, made for export to Europe. The centre embroidered with two colourful phoenixes in flight circling and an 8-petalled flower head. The main…

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Chinese and Japanese works of art, chosen over forty-two years for their quality, their oddness, and the pleasure of handling them.

Forty-two years of looking

For over forty years Robert Brandt has dealt in an eclectic collection of antique Chinese works of art — paintings, sculpture and textiles — together with Japanese works of art of the Edo and Meiji periods. Pieces are chosen for their quality, their oddness, and the pleasure of handling them. By appointment in London.