Details
AN EMBROIDERED MULTI-COLORED SILK SKIRT
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Decorated on the front and back with crimson panels embellished with brocade and embroidered borders, framing a figural panel divided by vertical strips of chartreuse, rose, yellow, turquoise, blue, lavender, purple and soft blue embellished with further brocade appliques, all within teal-blue borders--41½in. (105.4cm.) long
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Decorated on the front and back with crimson panels embellished with brocade and embroidered borders, framing a figural panel divided by vertical strips of chartreuse, rose, yellow, turquoise, blue, lavender, purple and soft blue embellished with further brocade appliques, all within teal-blue borders--41½in. (105.4cm.) long
Provenance
Maude Barnard, author of Within the Walls of Peking