THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SILK GAUZE INFORMAL ROBE

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AN EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SILK GAUZE INFORMAL ROBE
1900-1920

The bright, red ground worked in multi-colored counted stitch threads with various flower sprays interspersed with butterflies, within brocade borders of flowering plum and a black-ground border also decorated in counted stitch with flower sprays and flowers, the tapering sleeves with white gauze cuffs
55in. (139.7cm.) long