CHINA : Set of polychrome embroidered silk garments including: - A sleeveless jacket decorated with bats and auspicious objects in reserves in braces. - Two pleated mid-length skirts decorated with children among dragons in reserves highlighted by flowers and bats. - Large jacket with wide sleeves decorated with butterflies and flowers on a night background. - A banner decorated with two dragons on either side of a shou character on a carmine background. - A fragment decorated with butterflies and cranes among flowers on a green background. - A fragment in the form of strips decorated with friezes of flowers and medallions. Circa 1900. Provenance: Former collection of General Louis Arlabosse, member of the Tien-Tsin government, c.1900.