, Qing Dynasty, circa 1880, with green embroidered sleeve bands and blue borders decorated with large butterflies in each corner with an embroidered pink damask skirt, bordered with black silk, 157cm cuff to cuff and 99cm collar to hem
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Compare with a similar example illustrated in, Evolution to Revolution: Chinese Dress 1700s to 1900s, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1997, p. 56
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Provenance:
Ms Carmelle Cooke
Anthony Lawrence Cooke Collection
Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke Collection before 1993
清1880年 粉地缎绣女袍
拍品来源：Cooke家族私人收藏
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Condition Report:
some fading to front and reverse of sleeves and some wear to edges but no bad and some fading to lining
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