Chinese Silk and Metallic-Thread Embroidered Jacket, First Half Twentieth Century. Worked in shades of blue, green, lavender, purple silk threads and gold metallic threads with roundels of moths and bats on a black silk field, above stylized ocean waves stitched with ruyi-head symbols, lotus flowers and leaping fish, above opposing patches of wavy lines, the trim stitched in blue thread on tan with cloud scroll borders, lined in tan silk. H: 33 in., W: 24 in.

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31.25 x 24 in