A women's woven silk with supplementary weft patterning robe (with design of sky  earth and water  9 large five-clawed dragons pursuing and clasping the sacred discs among clouds in green  blue  red  yellow and brown silks and gold thread  Lined with pink figured silk) is unlike the other Chinese women's garments in the Museum  but the curators and conservators of V&A museum knew from 18th-century pictorial sources that it was very fashionable at the time