A woman's embroidered silk robe and a brown-ground brocade dragon robeWoman's robe: late Qing/Republic period
Including a woman's embroidered black satin informal robe, late Qing/Republic period, cut with a right side opening, embroidered in satin stitches and Peking knots with floral sprays, fruiting branches and butterflies, the black and ivory neck and border bands embroidered en suite (sleeves shortened, missing buttons, soiling); the second a brown silk brocade dragon robe, late 18th/19th century, the nine dragons finely woven with gilt-wrapped threads, the clouds, the waving lishui border, and remaining emblems worked in pale colors, the black ground collar bands en suite (fading, staining, losses to collar band, sleeves incomplete).
54 and 51 1/4in (137.2 and 130.2cm) long (2).