Leilão Bidspirit | A CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK ORANGE-GROUND

A CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK ORANGE-GROUND ROBE, CIRCA 1920. Finely embroidered with jardinieres of flowers and flower sprays, the black and ivory ground collar, sleeves and hem embroidered with water plants, grasshoppers, insects, cranes and flowers, with black silk toggles and blue silk lining. 97 cm long. Provenance: Property of Dr.G.W.Milledge acquired during his time in China c.1930s, thence by descent. Overall this is very bright in colour and finely detailed. There is some typical wear and tearing to blue silk lining, noticeably to collar. This is in need of repair/conservation. There is some speckled discolouration to ivory silk sleeves, some very minor discolouration to the orange silk ground, very minor water marks, some very minor loose stitching and some very minor repairs to stitching.