Evening jacket
Category
Costume
Date
1940 - 1960
Materials
Silk satin, silk, silk thread embroidery.
Measurements
620 x 460 mm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 604743
Summary
A woman's Chinese-style evening jacket made from white silk satin. The long-sleeved jacket has a mandarin style collar, with two concealed pockets on each hip, and is fully lined in white silk. It is decorated with multi-coloured silk thread embroidery in a theme of flowers, leaves and exotic birds and fastens centre front with four frogged and knotted buttons made from stiffened white silk, intact. Probably made for the tourist market.
Provenance
Gift of Miss Leeper.
Marks and inscriptions
Inner neckline, centre back.: A maker's label attached to an inner seam reads, "Plum Blossoms. Made in China". See associated photograph for further details.