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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
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A RARE IMPERIAL GOLD AND SILVER-EMBROIDERED
BLUE-GROUND TWELVE SYMBOL ‘DRAGON’ ROBE, LONGPAO
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
The robe is worked entirely in couched gold and silver threads with nine writhing
fve-clawed dragons confronting faming pearls amidst ruyi-form clouds
interspersed with bats and the bajixiang. The Twelve Symbols of Imperial
Authority are arranged in three groups of four: the sun, moon, constellation
and mountain around the neck; the fu symbol, axe, paired dragons, and golden
pheasant around the body; and the pair of libation cups, aquatic grass, grains
of millet and fames, all reserved on a blue ground above auspicious emblems
rising from the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hen; with midnight-
blue cufs and collar decorated with further dragons and clouds.
57Ω in. (146 cm.) long
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 30 March 2005, lot 206.
清嘉慶 御製藍地繡金銀龍袍

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