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Small gray-white vest with indigo design. The vest has a round neck, side slits and centre opening with frog closures. On the front are floral, branch and bird motifs. On the back are floral, pagoda, tree and bird motifs. Around all the edges is a dark blue border. The inside is unlined.
White jacket with dark blue embroidery. The jacket has a round neck, wide sleeves and centre opening with frog closures. On the front and back are phoenix, butterfly and bat motifs. On the sleeves are a dragon motif and a rinceau border. There is facing inside the neck. The rest of the inside is unlined.
White jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a round neck, wide sleeves and centre opening with brass frog closures. There are wide black borders around the neck, sleeves and centre opening. On the front, back and sleeves are butterfly motifs embroidered in black. The inside is unlined.
Light red jacket with indigo embroidery. The jacket has rounded neck, long wide sleeves, side slits and centre opening with no closures. On the centre front and back are large medallions with vase and floral motifs. On the front, back and sleeves are scattered floral and butterfly motifs. Around the sleeve cuffs is a geometric and floral motif border. The neck, side seam slits and front edges have wide inside facings with several joins. The rest of the inside is unlined.
Blue embroidery on white cotton. Five major motifs of flower and fruit baskets separated by smaller motifs. All baskets have key design in handles and bases; tassels at each end of base. In upper corners phoenixes joined at beaks, hold tassels. Phoenix designs in lower corners. Two birds holding tassel at each upper corner. Between baskets along bottom and symmetrical from center: small boats with two figures, two boys riding a unicorn and holding an umbrella. Two insects on either side of centre basket. Centre basket flanked above by four small crabs; two stylized butterflies, fish and tassels. Near upper edge small design of scrolls, coins, lozenge and sword. Border on three sides has repeating design of buildings, willow tree, flowers, small figure. Selvedge edges; hemmed ends.
Rectangular paper, orange on right side except for strip 3 cm. wide left white at top, orange area covered in gold foil flecks. Paper has three vertical lines of calligraphy in black ink, the centre line has six large Chinese characters, and the two side lines have five smaller characters each. Reverse has writing in pencil, "tablet of the ? god who establishes fortune. True (?) is virtue which can leat to greater (?) selflessness leads to heaven".
Six rectangular sheets of red coloured paper, to which pieces of gold foil in irregular shapes, are affixed. Both short ends cut in zigzag pattern; paper punched in several places with irregular pattern of lines and dots.
A pair (parts a-b) of gold isosceles triangles with scalloped edges. Each is glued on a bamboo stick which is bound by a piece of wire which projects, 5.4 cm. (a) or 4.3 cm. (b), beyond the base of the triangle, perpendicular to it. Raised from the surface of each triangle by means of three paper cylinders, there is a smaller foil triangle printed with a multi-coloured design of a butterfly and other shapes. Wired to this is a tuft of red fibres.
White jacket embroidered with black thread and trimmed with black outward turned facing. The jacket has a round neck, wide sleeves and centre opening with frog closures. On the shoulders are two small roundels with bird, sprig, bat, lotus and butterfly motifs. On the centre back is a large roundel with two birds, butterfly, lotus, cherry blossom, sprigs, leaves, centipede and spider motifs. There is black facing around the neck, sleeves and centre opening. The inside is unlined.
Black embroidery on white valance. Five major motifs of flowered plants or tree branches with a bird in each. Smaller motifs between these of butterflies along the top and animals at bottom.