A Chinese Lady's Embroidered Silk Jacket and A Yellow Ground Silk Apron Skirt

19TH CENTURY

the skirt worked with gilt and polychrome threads to the front and back flaps with writhing dragons above mountainous diagrams, the pleats with various floral sprays. The jacket of pale creamsicle silk, the side closure in blue and bordered in polychrome floral ribbons, all padded and lined in blue silk.

Length of jacket from collar to hem 36 1/4 x width across chest 25 in., 92 x 63.5 cm.

Property from a Private Collector, Florida

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.