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Woman's jacket (magua)

1850s
Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueSilk satin ground embroidered with silk and couched with gold-wrapped thread
Dimensions98.4 x 173.2 cm (38 3/4 x 68 3/16 in.)
Credit LineJulia Bradford Huntington James Fund
Accession number02.66
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
Provenance1902, Yamanaka and Co., Boston; sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $2650 [see note 1]. (Accession Date: April 17, 1902)

NOTES:
[1] MFA accession nos. 02.48 - 02.68 were purchased together for this amount.

late 18th century
Late 19th century
late 19th century
late 19th century, made from 17th century fabric
mid-19th century
late 18th century