An opera coat made from a Chinese summer robe of blue silk gauze embroidered in gilt metal threads and coloured silks with eight dragons amongst clouds and bats above a sea-wave border, the robe probably 19th century, cut down, re-made and lined in the 20th century

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An opera coat made from a Chinese summer robe of blue silk gauze embroidered in gilt metal threads and coloured silks with eight dragons amongst clouds and bats above a sea-wave border, the robe probably 19th century, cut down, re-made and lined in the 20th century

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