An informal robe of forget-me-not blue satin, embroidered in silks with peony and butterfly roundels and scattered with lotus flowers, peaches and further auspicious fruit and flowers, with details in couched gilt thread, the sleevebands worked with figures; and a semi-formal robe of midnight blue satin, embroidered with similar motifs in 'three blues' silks above a sea-wave border, late 19th/early 20th century