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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
1655
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE EMBROIDERED QIU
XIANGSE SILK ‘DRAGON’ ROBE, LONGPAO
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The robe is fnely embroidered with roundels of fve-clawed dragons chasing
‘faming pearls’, each worked in gold metallic threads with horns, scales and
claws picked out in Peking knot, all beneath vaporous clouds and above roiling
waves. The lower register is embroidered with a lishui stripe at the hem tossed
with auspicious emblems, and the whole is reserved on a ground of pale
greenish-yellow ‘Autumn incense’-colored (qiu xiangse) silk.
57 æ in. (146.7 cm.) long, 77 Ω in. (196.8 cm.) wide

$300,000-500,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired by the descendants of Tian Baodai (1916-2015) and Ye Man (1914-
2017) in California in the 1970s.
清十八世紀初 秋香色緞繡八團龍袍

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