Man's robe C. 1830. French. Damascus silk and cut velvet. | Les Arts Decoratifs
Embroidered Yao magician’s robe with numerous symbols. 20th century. Vietnam (Yao people). Silk embroidered on cotton. | Art Gallery NSW
Noh Robe (Nuihaku) with Design of Butterflies, Chrysanthemums, Maple Leaves, and Miscanthus Grass Edo period (1615–1868), second half of the 18th century, Japan, Silk embroidery and gold leaf on silk satin. The butterfly motif came into its own in China during the Tang dynasty (618-906), and several examples of decorative arts of the Tang bearing this pattern were preserved in the eighth-century Shōsōin imperial repository in Nara, Japan. Chinese secular poetry and writings on Buddhism also featured the butterfly, and Japanese admiration for these texts helped bring the motif to the fore in the literary and visual arts of Japan, where its popularity has lasted for centuries. This robe is decorated only at the shoulders (kata) and hem (suso), where the embroidered autumn design is on a glowing background of gold leaf. | THE MET
Furisode with Plank Bridges (Yatsuhashi), Irises, and Swallows. Young Woman's Robe, Japan, Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th-early 19th century. | LACMA
Kimono (furisode), Japanese, Taishô or Shôwa era, late 1920s–1930s. Long-sleeved robe (furisode) with overall, large-scale design of fan shapes decorated with auspicious motifs in blue, green, orange floating on a black, orange and white ground of swirling waves. Five crests with three heart-shaped leaves turned inward (symbol of shogun families). | MFA
"Grand habit" or court robe with train, "en fourreau", and petticoat, said to belong to Marie-Antoinette of France Attributed to the dressmaker Marie-Jean "Rose" Bertin (1747 - 1813). Silk satin, applique, embroidered with metal threads, chenille, sequins and applied glass pastes, 1780's, altered in 1870's, Bourbon; Louis XVI, Area of Origin: France. ↳ ROM