The ma gua or riding jacket was a waist-length, front-opening surcoat worn over the nei tao or inner tunic. For an example decorated with roundels see Zhao Xun and Gao Chunming, 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes, San Francisco, 1987, p. 216, fig. 378. See, also, a plain velvet example from the Collection of Beverley Jackson, sold in these rooms, December 1, 1994, lot 290