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Long open-front coat. Red striped silk with light blue and off-white cross-hatched lining. Panels of embroidered strips extend down the front on both sides of opening, and on the underside of the cuffs. The opening, collar, and cuffs are embroidered with yellow, black and white flowers. The front is decorated with metal drops (possibly pounded coins?), as well as Pahlavi Dynasty coins and Islamic Republic of Iran coins. The latter have amber-like decorations on the obverse side of each coin.
Amber beads on cotton twine in the shape of a necklace. All of the beads are flat and oval shaped with the exception of two cylindrical shaped near the back of the group. There is one lozenge that ties the two ends together. The bottom section has a metallic, coiled knot the ends with twisted silk threads, three beads then a red and white silk tassel.
Dark brown-red rectangular-shaped container with fibre cording, globular bead, and dark red wooden toggle. Container is in two parts and connected together by fibre cording. The larger part of the container lifts up from the smaller bottom piece. Both pieces are elaborately carved with geometric designs. The top and bottom piece are edged with a protruding scalloped rim and decorated with punctured holes. The round toggle has two animal figures facing each other and are holding the cord in their teeth.
A metal chain with seventeen charms attached: three amber beads; one amber ingot; one jade ring; one jade bead; two coins with square holes; a piece of coral; a jade disc with a round hole; one carved peach kernel; a carved monkey holding a peach; a jade Buddha's hand; a jade lotus; a pilgrim's gourd; a silver, and bird claw sword; and a bird's beak mounted with silver.
A string of one-hundred-and-ten beads on white cotton cord, one-hundred-and-four of which are spherical orange-brown seeds with a fine mottled surface that have faint striations. String forms a circle, at one side of which, there are three deep-carved beads of brown wood. At the opposite side, there are two identical beads to which are attached a smaller red-brown seed-bead with a spherical orange-brown seed, knotted on with the ends of the cord on which the beads are strung. Tied around the string of beads is braided white cotton cord, on which an amber ? bead is knotted. Cord is 4.4cm. long.
Transparent yellow amber nest with one egg.
An amber-coloured snuff bottle (part a) that has streaks of orange, and that has a t'ao-t'ieh holding a ring carved on each shoulder. There is a stopper (part b) that is clear green. The wood stand (part c) has the shape of an oval, and has four legs.