DIA550xH600mm, China

This small umbrella has a silver handle, a structure is made of bamboo and yawn, the shade is non-waterproof, to top it off, it has 2 pom pom on the top of the cap.  This is in fact a Chinese dance umbrella.  Around the Sung dynasty, merchants from the northern province acquired the umbrella from the south and brought them home as a novelty, in order to show it off a dance show is invented.  The moral of the story is – product promotion started early in China.

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