A PURPLE SILK GAUZE INFORMAL ROBE

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A PURPLE SILK GAUZE INFORMAL ROBE
CIRCA 1900

The purple ground woven with roundels of stylized dragons within a turquoise-ground silk border embroidered with pink insects and flowers within a black-ground counted stitch outer border, the borders repeated on the sleeves before cream-colored gauze cuffs--54½in. (138.4cm.) long