A quilted dressing gown of emerald green silk lined in sugar pink silk, with open pleat at the back, embroidered in pink and green silks with floral sprigs, 1890s, Japanese for Western Export

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A quilted dressing gown of emerald green silk lined in sugar pink silk, with open pleat at the back, embroidered in pink and green silks with floral sprigs, 1890s, Japanese for Western Export
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Literature
See p. 78 "Orientalism, Visions of the East in Western Dress", Richard Martin and Harold Koda, New York, 1994, for similar examples.

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