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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL YELLOW KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL
'DRAGON' ROBE MADE FOR THE EMPEROR, LONGPAO
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
The kesi ground is woven in shades of blue, violet, red, pink and gold threads
with nine five-clawed dragons and confronting flaming pearls on a densely
patterned ground of stylized wan emblems amidst clusters of ruyi-shaped
clouds interspersed with bats, shou characters, and auspicious emblems. The
Twelve Symbols of Imperial Authority are arranged in three groups of four: the
sun, the moon, constellation and mountain around the neck; the fu symbol, axe,
paired dragons, and golden pheasant around the body; and the pair of libation
cups, aquatic grass, grains of millet and flames around lower body, all reserved
on a bright yellow ground above the Eight Buddhist Emblems rising from
the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem; with gold cuffs and collar
decorated with further dragons and bats.
87Ω (222.3 cm) x 57Ω in. (146.1 cm.)
$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE:
Prominent private collection, New England.

清乾隆/嘉慶 御製黃地緙絲金龍十二章龍袍
來源:
重要私人珍藏，新英格蘭。

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