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AN EMBROIDERED SILK COAT AND A SHORT JACKET
Republic period
The first designed with a center front opening, embroidered on black
silk in satin stitch with dragon roundels and colorful flower sprays,
the collar, sleeves, and lower hems lined with white silk bands
embroidered with further flowers (toning to white silk); the second
a black ground jacket, worked in various colored silk and metallic
threads, embroidered to the front, back and shoulders with a front
facing dragon medallion, the sleeves and lower hems bordered with
simplified lishui forms and ocean waves (soiling, tears, staining).
40in (101.6cm) length of coat
28 1/2 (72.4cm) length of jacket

US$1,500 - 2,500

5054
A WOMAN’S EMBROIDERED BLUE BROCADE INFORMAL
ROBE
Late Qing dynasty
Possibly made from a dark blue brocade man’s robe, embroidered
with large-scale floral sprays, butterflies and other insects in loose
satin stitch while flowering branches and butterflies in fine threads fill
the black silk border bands, the polychrome embroidered ivory ground
sleeve bands highlighted with gilt-wrapped threads (wear, soiling).
5051 52 1/4in (133cm) long

US$800 - 1,200

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BERKELEY COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN DASHIELL ROUSE COLLECTION,
SAN FRANCISCO
5051
A MANCHU WOMAN’S RED GAUZE EMBROIDERED INFORMAL 5055
ROBE, CHANGYI TWO EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILES
Late Qing dynasty Late Qing/Republic period
The red gauze ground embroidered in intricate counted stitch with The first, a dark sky blue silk brocade woman’s informal coat (ao)
chrysanthemum branches and butterflies that repeat in the black with right side opening, embroidered in satin and knotted stitch with
ground order bands around the collar, hem and each of the tall side butterflies, flowers and auspicious emblems, the sleeve bands of beige
splits terminating in a ruyi scepter head below the sleeves, the sleeve satin worked with water plants, egrets and gold fish (extensive fading,
bands of beige silk gauze embroidered en suite (fading, staining). wear): the second a large horizontal hanging constructed from the
52 3/4in (134cm) long lower portions of a midnight blue summer gauze dragon robe worked
in gilt wrapped threads and counted stitch, trimmed with yellow silk
US$2,000 - 3,000 brocade bands, the hanging now sewn onto a black cloth backing
(fading, soiling).
44in (112cm) length of coat
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS 36 3/4 x 65in (93.5 x 165cm) the hanging
5052 US$1,000 - 1,500
A WOMAN’S EMBROIDERED MIDNIGHT BLUE INFORMAL
OVERCOAT, WAITAO
Late Qing dynasty
Sewn with a center front opening, the flowers, auspicious emblems
and butterflies embroidered in a combination of knotted and satin
stitches with outlines in couched white threads, the sleeve bands of
ivory satin embroidered with garden rocks, butterflies and birds on
flowering and fruiting branches (wear, soiling, loose threads).
41in (104cm) long

US$1,000 - 1,500

Provenance
from the collection of Mattie Locke Macomber (1853-1931), purchased
before the turn of the century

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