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A SKY-BLUE-GROUND SILK WOMAN’S
268 PADDED WINTER ROBE
272 | BONHAMS Late Qing Dynasty
The light-blue damask intricately woven with the
Eight Daoist Emblems on a ruyi ground, richly
embroidered in satin stitch with vibrant silk threads
depicting hovering butterflies amidst sprays of
peonies, prunus, chrysanthemums and orchids, the
design repeated on the pale-pink-ground cuffs, with
black-ground ruyi borders delicately embroidered
with cranes and peacocks within a fenced garden
defined by flowering shrubs and rocks, padded.
133cm (52 3/8in) long

£3,000 - 5,000
HK$33,000 - 55,000
CNY28,000 - 46,000

清末 藍地緞繡蝶戀花紋袍服

Wishes concerning the attainment of immortality,
conveyed by the Emblems of the Eight Immortals,
notorious group of legendary figures possessing
semi-divine powers, are reinforced on this robe with
the occurrence of cranes, vehicle of the immortals,
and the peacocks inhabiting the heavenly realms
advocated in Buddhist scriptures.

A related robe, albeit embroidered on a red-ground
silk, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, illustrated by V.Wilson, Chinese Dress,
London, 1986, no.241-1963, front and back cover.

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A MIDNIGHT-BLUE-GROUND SILK LADY’S
INFORMAL THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH ROBE
19th century
Vibrantly embroidered in satin and ‘Peking knot’
stitch with multi-coloured butterflies hovering amidst
shrubs of blossoming peonies, camellias, prunus
and chrysanthemum in three-blue silk threads
above foaming lishui waves interspersed with further
peonies, also depicted on the matching turquoise-
ground sleeve bands.
110cm (43 2/8in) long

£2,500 - 3,500
HK$27,000 - 38,000
CNY23,000 - 32,000

十九世紀 石青地緞繡蝶戀花紋女便袍