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A FUR-LINED BLUE-GROUND EMBROIDERED LADY’S
INFORMAL ROBE
19TH CENTURY

The midnight blue robe is decorated with scattered foral sprays and
butterfies in satin stitch and Peking Knot. The robe is trimmed and
lined with white fur.

£1,000-2,000 $1,500-2,900
€1,300-2,500

PROVENANCE:

Property from the Mr and Mrs C. Lefebvre Collection of Chinese
Robes.

清十九世紀 青石地蝴蝶花卉紋皮袍

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750

A FORMAL SURCOAT OF BLUE GAUZE SILK FOR THE
FOURTH CIVIL RANK, BUFU
19TH CENTURY

The dark blue gauze coat decorated with a subtle woven shou roundel. The
rank badge is applied with a goose for the Fourth Rank Civil Oficial to the front
and to the reverse.

£1,200-1,800 $1,800-2,600
€1,600-2,300

PROVENANCE: 750

Property from the Mr and Mrs C. Lefebvre Collection of Chinese Robes. PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
With Haig Galleries, Rochester, USA, December 2007.
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LITERATURE:
AN IVORY-GROUND DAOIST PRIEST’S ROBE
Paul Haig and Marla Shelton, Threads of Gold: Chinese Textiles: Ming to Ch’ing, 19TH CENTURY
University of Michigan, 2006, p. 71.
The robe is decorated to the shoulders with cockerel and hare medallions,
清十九世紀 青石地四品文官補服 來源：於2007年12 above a pavilion fanked by confronting dragons. It is further decorated with
月購自美國紐約州羅徹斯特古董商Haig Galleries crane roundels, Eight Daoist Trigrams, bagua, the attributes of the Eight
Immortals, and seal script characters, all above cranes and foaming waves.

£1,000-2,000 $1,500-2,900
€1,300-2,500

PROVENANCE:

Property from a Private American Collection, gifted by Mme Ganna Walska
(1887-1984) to the vendor in 1974.

Ganna Walska was a Polish opera singer and garden enthusiast who
emigrated to America and married six times. In 1926 she purchased the
Duchess of Marlborough’s Fabergé egg ofered by Consuelo Vanderbilt
at a charity auction. It was later acquired by Malcolm Forbes as the frst
Easter egg in his Fabergé egg collection.

清十九世紀 道袍 來源：美國私人珍藏，於1974年
被著名歌剧演唱家Ganna Walska夫人贈予現藏家

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