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LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A BLACK-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK SHORT COAT
Late 19th Century
Worked on the front and back in couched gold threads with a square insignia of a bird, possibly a silver pheasant, surrounded by six roundels of Buddhistic lions with their cubs, interspersed with various forms of shou characters throughout, all reserved on a black ground, above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, the pale blue cuffs of the sleeves decorated with bands of dragons
11in. (104.2cm.) long
Late 19th Century
Worked on the front and back in couched gold threads with a square insignia of a bird, possibly a silver pheasant, surrounded by six roundels of Buddhistic lions with their cubs, interspersed with various forms of shou characters throughout, all reserved on a black ground, above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, the pale blue cuffs of the sleeves decorated with bands of dragons
11in. (104.2cm.) long