A cased set of three Chinese scroll paintings on silk with gold brocade, each depicting ceremonial figure scenes within gold silk worked borders, image dimensions 144 x 52cm, full roll dimensions 242 x 70cm, with silk ties and rollers, in softwood fitted box (paintings all with losses and for restoration) Provenance: Acquired by Danish engineer Otto Frederick Krebs (1838-1913) while working for Mitsubishi in Japan for over 20 years. A photocopied letter from Andre Leth, the previous director of the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen, on headed paper is included with the scrolls. The letter states that the scrolls are probably late Ming Dynasty Chinese and later mounted in Japan, he declines the offer of the scrolls for the museum due to their fragmentary nature. A further photocopy of notes by Otto's son Frederik Henry Krebs (1881-1956), who was actually born in Japan during his fathers tenure, states that the scrolls are Japanese and by an artist named Shihoko. Otto Krebs brought the scrolls back from Japan to Denmark in 1890.