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1653

          PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
          1653
          AN EXTREMELY RARE PALE YELLOW GAUZE MAN’S ROBE,
          CHANGFU
          18TH CENTURY
          The robe is made of pale yellow damask gauze fnely woven with roundels of   A similar pale yellow robe with dragon roundels in silk rather than gauze,
          dragons confronting faming pearls.                  in the collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum, is published by Verity
          90º in. (229.2 cm.) long, 52º in. (132.7) wide      Wilson in Chinese Dress, London, 1986, p. 39.
                                                              清十八世紀   黃紗團龍紋常服
          $8,000-12,000

          PROVENANCE
          Jon Eric Riis, Atlanta.


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