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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL CHESTNUT-GROUND GAUZE SILK
SUMMER ‘DRAGON’ ROBE, JIFU
Qianlong
The vibrant chestnut ground worked in counted stitch and couched
gold threads with nine five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls on
the front and back panels, the shoulders and the underflap, all on a
ground of multi-coloured trialing clouds interspersed with floral sprays
and bats suspending beribboned emblems, all above a finely-drawn
border of turbulent waves tossed with further ruyi clouds and craggy
rocks issuing peony sprays and gnarled peach-laden branches, with
matching blue-ground borders at the collar and cuffs embellished with
striding dragons and other related motifs, the extensions of matching
pale chestnut gauze, with golden buttons.
239cm (81.5in) wide x 139.1cm (54 6/8in) long.

£50,000 - 80,000
CNY440,000 - 700,000

清乾隆 御製褐地緙絲雲龍紋吉服袍

Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth Ltd., London, 1995
An Australian private collection

來源：倫敦Linda Wrigglesworth Ltd.，1995年
澳洲私人收藏

Court painting; image courtesy of Image courtesy of the Palace Museum, Beijing
the National Museum of Denmark,
Copenhagen

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