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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
we have become able for the first time to see what the
theater of the court must have been in its full splendor
under the reign of Ch'ien Lung. A large group of co -

FIG. 34· DETAIL OF THE WARRIOR's ROBE
SHOWN IN FIGURE 35

tumes acquired by the Museum in 1930, carefully pre-
served and in their full freshness of color and texture,
are certainly from the imperial storage. These things are
extraordinary in workmanship and design and some of
them are stamped with the seal of the imperial theater.·
The skirts abnormally full, the sleeves sweeping and in
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