CHINESE EMBROIDERED BLACK SILK COAT. Worked with Peking and satin stitch to depict floral decoration, collar and sleeves worked with gold thread; together with blue silk dragon coat worked with gold thread and Peking stitch(2) Estimate $300-400
PROVENANCE:By direct descent from the A.P. Loring family, a banking and merchant family from Salem and Boston with regular business contacts in China.
Estate of Rose Loring Heard, Middleburg, VA
The robe has been reworked. The color and the bands in front of the robe were added probably later because the interior with the embroidery of the robe, the embroidery on the end of the sleeves are very nice and in good condition. At the back near the sleeve the silk is torn.
