| Object Number | 52-23-73A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China |
| Period | Qing Dynasty |
| Date Made | Early 20th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Silk |
| Technique | Embroidered |
| Iconography | Lion | Bats |
| Description | Embroidered silk square with green lion and ten bats in satin stitch, with sun of silver threads couched with red silk and couched outlines of fine gold and silver thread. Border of alternating gold and silver shou 壽 “long life” characters. The lion looks too unusual for this to have been worn on an official square, and it uses late aniline dyes. It was possibly made after the fall of the Qing Dynasty for an actor's robe or from the Reform Period of 1898 within the Guangxu Period (1875-1908), or in that style. |
| Height | 31 cm |
| Width | 31 cm |
| Thickness | 0.05 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. S. Letcher, 1952 |
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