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Woman's Jacket1939

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Black silk jacket on a dressmaker's form, covered in dense multicolored embroidery of phoenixes, flowering branches, and cloud motifs with gold frog closures
Title
Woman's Jacket
Place Made
Hong Kong
Date Made
1939
Medium
Silk satin with silk- and metallic-gilt-paper-wrapped silk thread embroidery; metallic-gilt braid trim
Dimensions
Center back length: 36 1/8 in. (91.76 cm) Height (Collar): 2 1/4 in. (5.72 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Chere Lai Mah
Accession Number
M.2022.101.93
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles

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