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A short Chinese dragon jacket
of dark blue silk satin embroidered in coloured floss silks and Peking knot stitch, and couched gilt threads with four dragons among clouds and peaches with cicada, over a sea-wave, with a dragon border below, the sleeve bands of green satin with figurative cartouches surrounded by couched gilt threads, lined in pale blue silk damask, 19th century
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of dark blue silk satin embroidered in coloured floss silks and Peking knot stitch, and couched gilt threads with four dragons among clouds and peaches with cicada, over a sea-wave, with a dragon border below, the sleeve bands of green satin with figurative cartouches surrounded by couched gilt threads, lined in pale blue silk damask, 19th century
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