Three embroidered apron skirt panels

The first is an ivory-ground skirt, decorated with embroidered and couched figural panels surrounded by flower sprays on a wan-design ground. The pleats are decorated with auspicious objects and flowers. The second are two dark blue-ground gauze skirt panels decorated with flowers and butterflies in the 'three blues' palette, the pleats are embroidered with further flowers.

Condition: the ivory skirt with the waistband replaced, minor stains; the blue skirt panels with heavy fraying, tears to the gauze, water stains, later lined.