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LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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AN EMBROIDERED RED SILK BRIDAL COAT
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The short coat with wide tapering sleeves, worked on the front and back with couched gold threads and colored satin stitch with a large central four-clawed dragon above pairs of dragons hovering above the terrestial diagram, amidst cloud scrolls, bats and paired pomegranate and peach sprays, the gold couching in imitation of the brocade technique
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) long
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The short coat with wide tapering sleeves, worked on the front and back with couched gold threads and colored satin stitch with a large central four-clawed dragon above pairs of dragons hovering above the terrestial diagram, amidst cloud scrolls, bats and paired pomegranate and peach sprays, the gold couching in imitation of the brocade technique
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) long