A court robe of blue silk, embroidered in silks and couched gilt thread, worked with two large-scale coiled dragons, issuing from one shoulder across the chest and back and flanked by pairs of kylins, and serpent-like dragons interspersed with polychrome cloud scrolls with turtles emerging from a turbulent sea-wave border below, the flaring sleeves with phoenixes and peonies, Vietnamese, 19th century (some wear, buttons missing, high collar added)