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A fine Chinese pale mauve silk panel, early 20 th century, worked with black and blue leafy chrysanthemum sprays, within orange banded borders, 107 x 70cm, accompanied by a black and white photograph, 9 x 13cm, of the vendor's grandmother and sister with the last emperor of China, Pu Yi. The photograph shows back row, left to right, Pu Yi’s brother, Pu Yi, Pu Yi’s wife, a Japanese princess, and at the front, Patricia Elwood and her sister, Joan Provenance: Patricia Elwood, the original owner, wrote a paper titled ‘A Chinese Childhood or Tea with the Last Emperor’ in which she states ‘on special occasions we wore dresses and hats which mother had knitted in thick white silk and we wore these when we had tea with ex-Emperor Pu Yi and his wife. This came about because a friend of the family, Miss Ransom, who was the art teacher at the grammar school, was teaching Pu Yi to teach English and told him she knew two English children who spoke Chinese fluently. We were invited to tea and sat at low tables, drinking tea and eating very sticky sweet meats which I did not like very much. There were monkeys running all over the balcony where this photo was taken of us of Pu Yi, his wife, his brother and a Japanese princess, the royal seal coloured red was the opening shot of the film The Last Emperor. Before leaving we were shown the dogs and horses and then the Emperor presented us each with a beautiful length of hand-woven silk from the Dowager empress's palace. Mine is a deep blue with a cloud pattern in gold and the symbol for long life, and my sister's is pale mauve with chrysanthemums. At the beginning of 1928, our parents decided to return to England.’