Blue Silk Collarless Robe Embroided with Plum Blossoming with Bamboo

China

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), About 1900

  • Titles Blue Silk Collarless Robe Embroided with Plum Blossoming with Bamboo (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium silk and cotton
  • Dimensions 50 1/2 × 58 in. (128.3 × 147.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Rhae M. Jr. and Barbara B. Swisher, AFI.433.2012
  • Work Type robe
  • Classification Costume

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