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A Chinese stole (xia pei)
of purple silk kossu woven in coloured silks and gilt threads with dragons among birds and flowers over a sea-wave border, trimmed with gilt braid, with the fourth civil rank badges worked in metal threads with an applied Cloud Goose, lined in pink silk, late 19th century
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of purple silk kossu woven in coloured silks and gilt threads with dragons among birds and flowers over a sea-wave border, trimmed with gilt braid, with the fourth civil rank badges worked in metal threads with an applied Cloud Goose, lined in pink silk, late 19th century
See Colour Plate