A surcoat of midnight blue satin, worked in silks with eight floral roundels each centred with cherry blossom worked in Peking knot above a sea-wave border, the wide cuffs trimmed with small roundels above a narrow sea-wave; and an apron skirt of red satin, embroidered with figures in a landscape, 19th century
A surcoat of midnight blue satin, worked in silks with eight floral roundels each centred with cherry blossom worked in Peking knot above a sea-wave border, the wide cuffs trimmed with small roundels above a narrow sea-wave; and an apron skirt of red satin, embroidered with figures in a landscape, 19th century

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A surcoat of midnight blue satin, worked in silks with eight floral roundels each centred with cherry blossom worked in Peking knot above a sea-wave border, the wide cuffs trimmed with small roundels above a narrow sea-wave; and an apron skirt of red satin, embroidered with figures in a landscape, 19th century
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