A woman's embroidered red satin informal coat, ao


Late Qing/Republic periodElaborately worked in polychrome and couched gilt threads with a quatrelobed collar and border bands on a black satin ground applied to the red satin ground showing gourd vine roundels amid flowering branches and butterflies using a combination of knotted and satin stitches that also appear on the blue silk ground sleeve bands.39 3/4in (101cm) long50in (127cm) width across shoulders