Filming at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the American version of Antiques Roadshow on PBS saw a woman present her grandmother’s robe, believed to be Japanese, an item which she bought in the 1980s for around $2,000.
Antiques Roadshow guest in tears as she shares ‘honourable’ mission as ‘beautiful’ robe valued at thousands WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Antiques Roadshow.
An Antiques Roadshow guest welled up after discovering her grandmother’s robe was worth thousands.
Mason went on to elaborate: “If you look at the sleeves, they are incredibly wide and that is to account for another article of clothing being worn beneath it with long sleeves.
He explained that the purple in design was a good “indication of age” with the robe from the Guangxu period, stating that it was most likely from the 1880s.
