A quilted robe of chestnut brown silk, embroidered with finches among fruiting boughs, lined in burgundy silk, Japanese, 1880s for the European market

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A quilted robe of chestnut brown silk, embroidered with finches among fruiting boughs, lined in burgundy silk, Japanese, 1880s for the European market
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A similar robe is exhibited, page 78, Orientalism, Visions of the East in Western Dress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994

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