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Fashions September 1850Plaid dress: open jacket bodice, chemisette, pagoda sleeves with engageantes. Jackets: (mantles, pardessus) with lace trim, skirts & cuffs or dentilated borders
Costume January 1862Ball / evening dress: pink & white ruched edged flounces, over-skirt hitched up at the sides & ornamented with pink roses. Black pardessus with pagoda sleeves
Buddhist Pagoda, BurmaBurmese women at prayer on the platform of the pagoda at Prome, Lower Burma
Costume / Photo by MerrickWoman: polonaise with pagoda sleeves, coils of false hair & a tiny hat tilted forwards. Man: light coloured trousers & waistcoat, striped cravat, short jacket with bound edges
Ladies Sewing / 1850SOpen bodices with or without revers worn with chemisettes (with buttoned front, broderie Anglaise, volans), pagoda sleeves, various styles of engageantes & lace caps
MENs COATS OF 1855Frock coat with funnel or pagoda sleeves in imitation of the current female fashion shown from the rear & front on. One coat has a naval air with embroidered stand collar
Canton from NieuhofA view of the city possibly from a craft in the Pearl River showing the busy port. An 18th century engraving from a 17th century original
Porcelain Tower NankingNANKING PAGODA, the porcelain tower known also as the temple of Pau Lin Shi. Inside the temple are over 10, 000 images made of plaster, some of them are over 6 feet high. Date: 1653 - 1670
Flower Arranging 1929A young woman, in her orientally inspired boudoir arranges Physalis / Chinese Lantern in a porcelain vase. Date: 1929
Burmese WorshippersWorshippers at a Burmese pagoda
Taeping Rebellion: 1862Taeping Rebellion - the French in action near Sikawe