Page 42 - Dreweatts May 19, 2015 Chinese and Asian Works of Art, Good section on late Chinese Bronzes

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A civil official’s burgundy brocade
silk surcoat, bufu, 19th century,
finely woven with blooming
lotuses and peonies, applied
on the front and back with
insignia badge, buzi, of a Paradise
Flycatcher, for the official of the
ninth rank, finely worked in satin
and couched gilt thread, with
the white, long tailed bird, flying
amid vaporous, ruyi clouds, facing
the sun as it stands atop a rock
emerging from waves and gold
stripes, within a border of floral
scroll, 165cm wide and 115cm high
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清十九世纪 紫地文九品补服.
补服圆领，对襟，平袖端，裾左
右开。前胸后背饰九品补子 （
练雀)

£600-800

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A blue gauze court ‘dragon
robe’, jifu, 19th century,
finely worked in couched gilt
thread depicting nine five-
clawed dragons with flaming
pearls, amidst lingzhi shaped
clouds, auspicious emblems
and bats above foaming
waves and lishui stripes, with
similar pattern embroidered
to the horse shoe cuffs

清十九世纪 蓝地金缂云龙
纹纹吉服

£1,500-2,000

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