Manchu. Woman's Changfu (Informal Court Robe). 1875–1925. China. Silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered in back and stem stitches; sleeve facings silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered in back, knot, overcast, stem, and straight stitches; laid work and couching; ribbon silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and extended weft loop fringe; sleeves trimmed with silk, plain weave; metal buttons

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