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664. FIGURE OF HO HSIEN, SEATED, in white porcelain, brilliantly decorated

in colours of the famille verte, rich black head dress. 7 inches high. K'ang-Hsi.

665. LARGE BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with wide cylindrical neck, of fine white

porcelain, with a boldly modelled arabesque design over the body of the vase and
applied incised leaves springing from a diaper border at the base of the neck. The
top of the neck is completed with a modelled border. The whole covered with brilliant
turquoise glaze. 19 inches high. Ch'ien Lung, (plate xiii.)

Lent by R. H. Benson, Esq.

WALL CASE Z

FINE EMBROIDERIES, MOSTLY i8th CENTURY

666. PANEL OF RED AND GOLD VELVET. Medallion of dragons while fanciful clouds

complete a square framed with fret border. All in red velvet and gold tissue.

667. EMBROIDERED SKIRT, of orange-red figured crepe, with border of black satin

edged with pale blue and white piping. The bottom of the panel of the skirt is
embroidered with hydrangeas and butterflies in soft shades of white, blue, green,

yellow and gold. Unlined.

668. RICHLY EMBROIDERED SKIRT OF FIGURED RED CREPE, embroidered

all round nearly two feet up from the base with zig-zag lines of skilfully shaded silks.
At the base of the front panel is a design of gold chrysanthemums in couched threads
worked over the zig-zag background. The panels are framed, first with two fancy
woven ribbon borders, and then with an outer border of black silk with flowers,

butterflies and emblems embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread.

669 and 670. PAIR OF SLEEVE BANDS OF YELLOW FIGURED SATIN,

embroidered with fish, emblems, &c., in coloured silks with touches of gold thread.

671. SKIRT OF DARK AUBERGINE GAUZE, edged with black. The centre

panel is decorated at the bottom with figures and a landscape, in cross-stitch, in colours.

An inner woven ribbon border frames each panel, and outside that is a narrow

embroidered border in blue and white on a black ground.

672. EMPRESS'S SHORT JACKET OF YELLOW GAUZE, embroidered in gold

and silver threads, the ornament being also outlined in narrow lines of bright blue

silk. The ground of this coat is covered in this way with an exceedingly sumptuous

design of dragons and clouds, and the well-known wave border is carried round

the skirts of the jacket. In addition to other emblems "thaendjatchkeet" bears on the
shoulders the imperial private crests of the " White Hare Cock."

This coat is said to have been the " Yellow Jacket " of the late Dowager Empress

of China.

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