


The Property of Frieda Hughes
Lot 317
PLATH (SYLVIA) A Japanese blue embroidered silk jacket, with label "Made in Italy. Dickins and Jones, Regent Street" (2)
21 March 2018, 15:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,125 inc. premium
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PLATH (SYLVIA)
A Japanese blue embroidered silk jacket, light blue lining, 4 toggled "frog" buttons and mandarin collar, shoulders faded, label "Made in Japan"; a blue collarless tunic top, damask pattern, with label "Made in Italy. Dickins and Jones, Regent Street" (2)
Footnotes
For a photograph of Sylvia Plath wearing the Japanese jacket, at dinner on board the S.S. United States whilst travelling back from America to England in December 1959, see Letters of Ted Hughes, 2007 ( illustration 2b).
Provenance: Sylvia Plath, and by descent to her daughter Frieda.