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Coat

Description: Coat of navy-blue silk satin with embroidery in polychrome silks. Round neck, opens down center front, long kimono sleeves, side slits at hem. All the embroidery on the body of the coat is in flower motifs worked in satin stitch. Round embroidery medallions at the center front, center back, over both shoulders and 4 at the hem. Scattered all-over are other smaller motifs. The round neck, the bottom of the sleeves and the hem are decorated with a band of blue embroidery and a woven ribbon trimmi… more
Date: 1850/1919

Court robe

Description: Hand sewn long Chinese court robe in unlined brown silk embroidered with geometric designs and gold dragons. Fitted sleeves end in rounded. flared cuffs. Left front to right side closure with loop and round. patterned. gold colored metal buttons.
Date: 1880/1912

Court vest

Description: Chinese floor-length vest made in the same style as a court robe but sleeveless. Mandarin collar. Body of vest is brocaded silk. Trim and collar contain much and fine silk hand embroidered design motifs.
Date: 1880/1920

Robe

Description: Hand sewn long Chinese court robe or coat with rounded neck. and loose sleeves. Left front to right side closure with round patterned buttons. Light and dark blue silk with extensive applique of dragons. spirals and lines with gold thread.
Date: 1880/1912

Lotus shoes

Description: Pair of lotus shoes for bound feet. Tiny heeled shoes of dark navy silk, the uppers with multicolored floral embroidery at top and sides, and cloud-form patterns of couched gold thread around heels. Edged at top with blue silk ribbon. The shaped heels are of white leather.
Date: 1890/1920

Children's shoes

Description: Pair of children's shoes from China. Designed with straight last, rounded toe with small point at tip and at heel. Upper of pink/mauve brocade with Chinese symbols in yellow, green/gold, and white. Edged in dark blue around opening, and the panels bordered in black bands. Front of each shoe with applied stylized mask form with eyes, eyebrows, and nose embroidered in various colors, mustache along upper lip with trailing ends of red, yellow, green, blue, etc. Narrow vertical brocade band of Chin… more
Date: 1900/1960

Ensemble

Description: Chinese ensemble of blue silk with multi-colored embroidery. A) Jacket/Bodice. Knee-length, A-line, standing collar, long sleeves with white cuffs embroidered with scenes of Chinese people in various situations. Center front opening with black frogs fastened with spherical gold buttons. Wide band at collar and part of front opening, and hem with embroidery of figures on brown ground. Field of jacket with large multi-colored embroidered flowers and butterflies. B) Pants. Matching. Drawstring … more
Date: 1911/1930

Jacket

Description: Chinese jacket of red damask silk with multicolored embroidery. Almost knee-length, with long sleeves. Floral damask pattern, embroidery of flowers, moths(?), foliage, and other symbols. Angled center front opening bordered with blue, fastened with carved/chased gold sphere buttons and loops. Around opening, hem, collar, and cuffs is embroidered band in blues and white scrolls, with outer border of gold and black. Lined in pink silk. No labels.
Date: 1911/1930

Skirt

Description: Red silk cheongsam style skirt - ankle length taper off skirt fully lined with silk crepe. Hand embroidered silk design motifs - Vertical gold rickrack creates the illusion of the traditional aproned skirt popular in the Qing Dynasty. This is probably a transitional garment going from the ancient style to the more contemporary garments of the 1920's and 1930's. There is a Neiman Marcus and a People’s Republic of China label inside.
Date: 1911/1929

Wedding skirt

Description: Chinese Wedding Skirt for a Member of the Court. Mid-calf length wrap-style skirt comprised of two panels of red brocade silk with chrysanthemum pattern attached to 2.25" waistband of green wool; panels connect with interior button of green wool and skirt is secured with ties of green wool that wrap around the waistband. Panels are unadorned where wrap overlaps and finely pleated where panel is visible. On pleated sections are long strips of dark blue silk piped and backed in light blue silk; s… more
Date: 1911/1930

[Art Show]

Description: Photograph of an art exhibition in China. Hanging cloth panels intersect the foreground. The floor is filled with artwork displayed on pedestals. People walk amongst the pedestals.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Art Show]

Description: Photograph of an art exhibition in China. The foreground is filled with pedestals, displays, and hanging artwork. People are seen walking between the pedestals.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Bamboo Trees]

Description: Photograph of bamboo trees in the Potted Scenery Garden of Guilin, China. Bamboo trees fill the frame in the foreground. Sunlight in an opening of grass is visible in the background behind the trees.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Boat by Fubo Hill]

Description: Photograph of Fubo Hill in Guilin, China. In the foreground, a young girl and a woman play in the water of the Li River. Two boats parked under a rock overhang are visible behind the girl. Beyond the overhang, large rocks are visible in the water.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Boat of Pleasant Banquet]

Description: Photograph of the Boat of Pleasant Banquet in the Summer Palace of Beijing, China. A side view of the boat is visible in the foreground. Multiple people fill the decks of the boat. A building on the dock is visible behind the boat. A distant shore is visible in the far right background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Boatman]

Description: Photograph of a boatman in Guilin, China. In the foreground, a man in straw hat stands on a boat made of long logs. Behind the man, a road runs beside the river. Trees line the road. A field is visible in the background beyond the road.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Buddha]

Description: Photograph of the Longmen Caves in Luoyang, China. A stone Buddha figure is visible in the foreground surrounded by smaller stone figures. The wall behind the figures is carved and painted.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Buddha]

Description: Photograph of a stone Buddha in the Longmen Caves of Luoyang, China. The top of the frame is hidden in shadow. The Buddha is surrounded by smaller stone figures.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Cave Entrance]

Description: Photograph of the entrance to caves along the Li River in Guilin, China. A large rocky cliff is visible in the foreground. Two small wooden boats are visible at an opening in the rock.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Cave Entrance]

Description: Photograph of the cave entrance into Folded Brocade Hill in Guilin, China. Numerous people are visible in front of and within the cave entrance. The rocky hillside is visible in the top foreground. Trees grow out of the hillside.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Ceiling Detail]

Description: Photograph of a painted ceiling in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China. Three red columns are visible in the foreground. The painted structure beams of the ceiling are visible beyond the columns.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray

[Ceramics Factory]

Description: Photograph of a Chinese ceramics factory. In the foreground, vases and dishes are laid out on wooden racks. Terracotta vessels are piled up in woven baskets in the center. Two people stand in front of a kiln in back. More racks are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gough, Ray
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