Theatrical jacket for a court lady
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This jacket features delicate embroidered lotuses on green satin. Known as a lotus-picker jacket (cailianyi), this type of garment would have been worn by a lady while she picked lotuses. On the lining of this example, several ink stamps indicate it was used at the Jingshan, a man-made hill north of the Forbidden City where actors from south China who performed in the imperial theater lived.
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