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Robe3696/2

Light green, silk gauze robe with wide sleeves, round neck, and right side opening; secured with metal frog closures. Cuffs, collar, and side opening bordered with embroidered black band. Embroidery design is of white birds flying through blue and white clouds; clouds made up of curvilinear motifs. Thin white ribbon trims band, with alternating floral and butterfly designs. Silk gauze ground has medallion designs woven throughout; sleeves are lined and embroidered. Embroidery on lining has designs of flying birds, flowers, and curvilinear motifs.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, fibre, dye and metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coat3696/1

Yellow silk robe with wide sleeves, round neck, and right side opening; secured with knotted frog closures. Cuffs, side opening, and bottom edge bordered with black band; decorated with embroidered blue and white floral motifs, and gold scrollwork. Scrollwork done in metallic thread. Additional white bands on cuffs, with flowers in vases; done in blue and gold. White ribbon, with pink and blue flowers, and green geometric designs, trim black band along bottom edge, neckline, and opening. Butterflies and floral motifs, both alone and in vases, embroidered across robe; gold ground has flower designs woven across surface. Lined with natural cloth. Square tag attached at collar, and characters stamped to inner edge of jacket opening; done in red.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, fibre, dye and metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dragon Robe3550/1

Dark red robe with a round neck, long sleeves, hoof cuffs, and a side opening with gold frog closures. There are slits in the centre front and back. Collar, side opening and cuffs are bordered with black and trimmed with dark gold floral motifs. Dragons, clouds and waves embroidered in silver throughout borders. The front, back and upper sleeves of the robe have five-toed dragon, pearl, fish, cloud, crane, gourd, mountain, Taoist symbols, and floral motifs; all done in silver embroidery. The lower sleeves are black and decorated with silver lines; cuffs and lower sleeves edged with a gold braid. Inner lining of cuffs is dark blue silk with circular symbols embroidered throughout; the rest of robe interior is plain light blue silk.

Culture
Chinese
Material
gold metal, fibre, silver metal, silk fibre, metal and dye
Made in
Sichuan, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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