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19TH CENTURY
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An Embroidered Red Velvet Lady's Informal Jacket
19th Century
Lavishly embroidered in Peking stitch with a central design of flowers and auspicious symbols interspersed with scholars' attributes and 'antiques', including porcelain, a tablescreen, scholar's rocks and archaic bronzes, above a lishui border, all picked out in shades of blue, pink, green, yellow, and brown on a red velvet ground, opening on the left side
44½in. (113cm.) long
19th Century
Lavishly embroidered in Peking stitch with a central design of flowers and auspicious symbols interspersed with scholars' attributes and 'antiques', including porcelain, a tablescreen, scholar's rocks and archaic bronzes, above a lishui border, all picked out in shades of blue, pink, green, yellow, and brown on a red velvet ground, opening on the left side
44½in. (113cm.) long
Exhibited
New York, The Museum at F.I.T., SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, China Chic: East Meets West, 16 February - 24 April 1999