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AN EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND SILK A PART-UNCUT BURGUNDY-GROUND
‘DRAGON’ ROBE AND COLLAR SILK DRAGON ROBE
19th century Late Qing Dynasty
Worked in satin stitch and ‘Peking knot’ in The festive robe finely woven with
shades of blue, green, red and violet and gilt-wrapped threads depicting lishui
couched gold threads with eight five-clawed borders and striving dragons chasing
dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst flaming pearls amidst vaporous clouds,
clusters of clouds interspersed with bats, cranes, lucky ji characters and the
the Eight Buddhist Emblems and peonies, attributes of the Eight Immortals.
all reserved on a rich blue ground above the 436cm (181 6/8in) long
terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the
hem, with dark ground cuffs, collar and sleeve £3,000 - 5,000
bands decorated with further dragons and HK$33,000 - 55,000
clouds, 145.5cm (56 7/8in) long; together CNY28,000 - 46,000
with a shoulder collar, piling, embroidered with
similar designs of dragons and lishui stripes in 清末 紅緞繡暗八仙九龍紋袍料
satin stitch and gold thread.
76.5cm (30 2/8in) long (2).

£4,000 - 6,000
HK$44,000 - 66,000 CNY37,000 - 55,000

十九世紀 藍地緞繡盤龍八吉祥紋吉服袍
及雙龍戲珠紋圓領

Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏 264 (detail)

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