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An inverted pyramidal-shaped hat that has bird, flower, and butterfly motifs, appliqued in pink, yellow, mauve, green, and grey on a white background edged with white fur all on a black background. Stiffened, and glued. Decorated with circular tin reflectors, and mirrors. There are two plain ties at opposite corners.
Purple damask silk hanging with embroidery and tassels. The rectangular hanging has an upper flap that is folded over onto the main panel. The flap has narcissus (flower of the new year), peony (flower of spring), crane (symbol of longevity), Shou Shin (god of longevity), (god of happiness), (god of prosperity), and deer (symbol of longevity) motifs. Around the edges of the flap is a cream border with floral motifs and purple trim. The main panel has peony, phoenix (symbol of peace and serenity), unicorn or chi lin, tiger and dragon motifs. Around the edges is a turquoise border with floral motifs and dark blue trim. Along the bottom are multicoloured netting with bronze discs and tassels. The back is lined with pink cotton.
Pair of shoes. Each shoe is red, bordered along the top with light blue. The design on each side is consisting of a beige butterfly that has black designs and pink flowers on a green stem. The toe angles to a linear vertically rounded point along the middle, creating two sides to the shoe. There is a base for the shoe; the inside is made of white-beige cotton(?).
Round coin with a four-sided hole in the centre, and a rim around the outer edge and the centre hole. The obverse has four characters, and the reverse has two characters. Kangxi tongbao (top-bottom right left) in Chinese characters are on the obverse; boo yuwan left, right (mintmark), in Manchu are on the reverse. Raised fields; crescent between two dots on the reverse top; reverse very worn.
Chinese robe border in progress, rectangular loom width of fabric with warp of fine hemp? and continuous weft of hemp? (yellow areas) and silk (blue areas). Woven in fine silk tapestry weave are round neck border, above a curved border for upper edge of robe, above a series of diagonal strips, all decorated with a series of roundels woven in white, light blue, and dark blue on background. Each roundel is painted in shades of blue detailing floral motifs.
Pink silk bedspread with dark pink silk lining and ruffled edges. Frontlet has embroidered flowers in centre and across top. Multi-coloured flower pattern consists of pinks, purples, oranges, and greens, all in various hues.
A man's hairnet woven from black horse hair, which is twisted, knotted, and braided in various sections. Two elongated fabric hair ties hang from the netting.
Brown silk cloth with 14 embroidered areas. Numbered end shows two mirror image gold embroidered dragons over waves motifs with bands of blue, green, red, and brown. Green bats, blue clouds and flaming circle around dragon. Next area of embroidery towards center of cloth shows four mirror image cocks over same wave pattern, with green bat. Same motif is repeated off-center to these. Next area of embroidery is towards the opposite end, showing two squares with gold embroidered dragon surrounded by blue clouds, flaming circle, red and green bats, flowers, shell, and fish, over a red flower and wave pattern. Above each of these squares are two small wave motifs. At other edge are two cock, wave and bat motifs mirrored. At opposite end of cloth is one cock, wave and bat motif in one corner. Along edge are two Chinese characters.
White silk cloth embroidered with birds, butterflies, flowers, stems, leaves, insects and crab in green, blue, pink, yellow, purple and gold metallic thread. The bottom of the textile is gold metallic thread embroidered scrolled wave design in black with blue silk background. Green loop at top. Reverse is pink cotton.
A teapot with a plain body (part a) with a tall stepped lid (part b) and a short spout. The lid has a chain at the top that used to connect to a loop at the top of the handle. It is mostly brass with a beaten copper handle and base.