Orange vertically rectangular silk panel with embroidery image, adhered to paper. The paper covers the entire back of the panel, and the front edges. Embroidery shows a human figure wearing a long blue robe with pants underneath, and a purple and green scarf at wrists and down legs. The figure also wears an elaborate headdress, and is barefoot. A peacock is behind the figure, with head to the left and tail feathers to the right. The two are surrounded by oval embroidered shapes on top and both sides. Couching in gold wrapped thread; embroidery in green, dark blue, light brown, brown, purple, light blue, gold and yellow.

Military rank badge. Square embroidered silk panel with both gold and silver couching. The central figure is a lion embroidered onto a separate piece of fabric and sewn onto the panel. The background is a sequence of semi-regular patterns with ocean motifs interspersed, such as sea creatures, a shell, plant life. A border edges the panel and has a repeating pattern. The panel is sewn to a plain blue silk backing piece. On the backing fabric, sewn to the lower right corner is a small paper with the inscription “Lion, Military official of the second rank.” Colours are blue, light blue, gold, black, green, orange, and a very pale light blue.

Scrolled painting of a small boat on water with surrounding landscape and structures. One figure rides in the boat. There is a red stamp in the bottom right corner of the painting. The painting is attached to a larger piece of paper, which appears to have a very thin layer of silk around the border, weighted at the bottom with the wooden scroll, and a cord attached to the top.

Small, vertically rectangular sketch.The scene is a landscape of mountains and trees. A single human figure kneels in the bottom right corner. The image is monochromatic.

Vertically rectangular panel with embroidered scene, sewn into a blue fabric frame. The scene is embroidered onto dark green silk? and shows performers engaged in various activities. At top left, a group in masks and a dragon costume climb a stack of chairs. Nearby musicians and spectators watch and one points. In the lower left are drummers and gong players. The lower right shows a dragon dance. Intermingled are trees and foliage. The blue silk frame has pink designs in the weave. The panel is backed with bright pink cotton. Colours are dark green, blue, pink, white, orange, grey, brown and red.

Square silk panel with embroidered theatre scene. In the forefront of the scene five figures in elaborate clothing dance, some wearing headdresses and holding weapons. Behind them is a group under a canopy with a central male figure sitting on a throne, surrounded by five other figures. A border of flowers and insects separates this scene from a smaller one above, where a flutist sits inside a structure, with another figure and animals standing on the outside. Mountains can be seen in the background. To the left of this scene is a dragon, and to the right, a bird, possibly a phoenix. The background of both top and bottom scenes is embroidered entirely with metallic gold thread. This panel is sewn into a blue silk fabric frame, lined on the back with dark blue cotton. A paper label on the front bottom left corner says “Theatre scene wall hanging...” Colours are blue, gold, green, red, brown, light brown, purple, pink and yellow.

Two orange embroidered panels, mounted onto vertically rectangular blue panels, stitched together. The embroidered images on the orange panels are virtually identical, but reversed. Each panel has a phoenix in flight at bottom, and a dragon at top. Most of the dragon and parts of the phoenix, and other areas on the panels, are embroidered with metallic fibre. The two creatures are accompanied by a gold and blue cage-like structure, foliage, flowers, and decorative motifs. The orange panels have a thin blue and white boarder slightly inset from the edges. The blue mounting panels have a pattern in the weave of the cloth. The blue panels are attached by wide stitching at top, middle and bottom. They are backed by green cotton sewn onto each side separately.

Long yellow, vertically rectangular, narrow panel. Embroidered scene on bottom half of two people in a boat, on water. The boat is hung with lanterns and one of the figures propels it with a stick. The other figure stands in the middle of the boat under a canopy. Also in the scene are trees and vegetation, clouds, two buildings and a bridge. Panel is folded at both ends; partial stamp in bottom rear fold, to the left. Embroidery colours are green, blue, red, pink, white, dark brown and brown.

Five embroidered appliques adhered to long, horizontally rectangular paper. The centre applique is a pearl surrounded by wavy black lines. Below it are two small appliques, oval with a tail piece at bottom. Facing these appliques from the left and right are two large blue and light brown dragons, mouths open, claws extended. Colours are blue, light brown, black, brown, green and dark yellow.

Long thin rectangular hanging of rust coloured silk, with embroidery and couching on lower portion. The embroidery is a scene with a boy on a dragon and a girl on a phoenix, as well as flowers, plants, waves, and buildings. Colours used are white, gold, green, blue, light green, light blue, yellow and purple, with gold thread couching in some areas. On the rear bottom left corner is a printed inscription in Chinese characters, and a piece of tape(?) with printed Chinese characters.