Lady's Six Symbol Dragon Robe of orange silk with navy-blue satin sleeves and additional sleeve-bands familiar to ladies' robes and with horse-shoe cuffs. Slit at the sides only. The robe is embroidered with coloured silk, gold and silver threads in long-and-short, satin and stem stitches with Pekin knots and laid and couched work. The collar band is also of dark blue silk embroidered with dragons, clouds, bats and waves. The robe is lined with blue silk.
The main part of the robe is embroidered with depictions of nine five-clawed dragons above 'Li shui', surrounded by clouds, the eight Buddhist symbols, bats and six of the twelve Imperial symbols:- the sun, the moon, the axe, the fu symbol, and the three and four starred constellations. The eight precious things (Ba Bao) are embroidered into the waves.