Chinese embroidered silkshort-sleeved jacket, bustier and trousers, circa 1900, of fine quality, colour and condition, the sea green ground jacket, centre-fastening, with fur lining to neck, the lower half profusely worked with flowers and butterflies, approximately 52cm armpit to armpit x 74cm high; together with an embroidered black-ground bustier, 71cm wide, and a superb pair of pink-ground trousers, decorated with swastikas, butterflies, Buddhistic precious objects, and polychrome wavy diagonal stripes to lower half, approximately 68cm / 27" waist (measured in a straight line at base of v-shaped waistband) x 60cm inside leg; 96cm overall, together with a Chinese kingfisher blue ground long-sleeved Summer jacket or coat, with pink trim matching the trousers, the lower sleeves worked with similar butterflies, bats etc on a black ground, approximately 46cm armpit to armpit x 68cm long (4)