THREE SILK-EMBROIDERED PLEATED SKIRTS, LATE QING DYNASTY, the first of bright magenta and blue colors, elaborately worked in couched gold and silver threads with peony blossoms and looped knot, with cream borders finely embroidered with various flower sprays; the second of red silk, decorated with couched dragon panels and blue-embroidered floral panels divided by loose tabs running the length of skirt; the third of pale-cream silk worked with rectangular panels of figures in gardens picked out in muti-colored threads--all approximately 37 in. long (3)