Assorted panels from an unpicked dress of emerald green silk painted in shades of pink, blue, purple and green with trailing anemonies, carnations and other exotic flowers--one shaped panel 15½ x 52½in. (39 x 131cm.), circa 1760, Chinese for export?; and a muff cover of ivory satin embroidered with ribbon work floral swags flanking a basket and urn worked in silver metal threads and sequins, circa 1770

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Assorted panels from an unpicked dress of emerald green silk painted in shades of pink, blue, purple and green with trailing anemonies, carnations and other exotic flowers--one shaped panel 15½ x 52½in. (39 x 131cm.), circa 1760, Chinese for export?; and a muff cover of ivory satin embroidered with ribbon work floral swags flanking a basket and urn worked in silver metal threads and sequins, circa 1770

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