Women's informal xiape jacket in embroidered silk on a blue background, China, early 20th century With round collar and central opening, embroidered in polychrome and gold thread with two five-clawed dragons in pursuit of sacred beads on the front and a dragon in front above two fenghuang on the back, on a background embroidered with precious objects, clouds, bats, lotus flowers, peonies, lingzhi and fruit. A terrestrial diagram surrounded by waves and precious objects adorns the bottom of each panel above a lishui band adorned with gold-embroidered peony flowers. At the bottom, a silk net from which polychrome pompom bangs hang. Pink silk lining. Height: approx. 101 cm Some alterations.