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AN EMBROIDERED SILK GAUZE FORMAL COURT ‘DRAGON’ The formal court robe, known in Chinese as chaofu, or chaopao, is
the most important of the ceremonial costumes of the Qing court.
ROBE, CHAOFU
Late Qing dynasty Several examples of these important robes can be found in museum
The midnight-blue robe embroidered with fine couched gilt threads and collections, including a similar deep-blue silk gauze chaofu, dated
polychrome silk floss to form energetic five-clawed dragons pursuing to 1870-80, in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, number 1974.408,
precious pearls on the chest, back, and each shoulder amid ruyi- and another embroidered silk chaofu in the Metropolitan Museum of
clouds and auspicious emblems, framed by lishui stripes with soaring Art, New York, number 35.84.3, dated to the second half of the 19th
mountain peaks rising from crashing waves churning further auspicious century.
symbols, the waist band decorated with paired dragons and clouds on
either side of the terrestrial diagram above waves, the design repeated
on the edge of the pleated skirt below seventeen dragon roundels and
a square flap with an additional front-facing dragon, all bordered in
black and gold brocade.
50 1/2in (128.2cm) long
US$10,000 - 15,000
清末 石青地繡五爪金龍彩雲葛紗朝袍
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