Beschreibung:

Chinese. A lady's embroidered short jacket, late Qing Dynasty, navy silk jacket finely hand-stitched in polychrome silk threads, using satin stitch and Peking knots, with all-over flower and moth motifs, and border of flowers, foliate volutes, and bats, lined with pink silk damask (some marks), stitched on turn-back sleeve cuffs with wide border of moths and paeonies, incorporating gold metallised threads, cuffs a little dusty and marked (especially at edge folds), front opening with 5 brass bauble fasteners, binding to nape becoming detached, cuff to cuff 105 cm (41.25 ins), length 65 cm (25.5 ins) (Quantity: 1)