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Painted depictions of flying tiger banners are displayed in military PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
processions guarding the emperor, particularly in the Southern Inspection
Tour scrolls by Wang Hui (1632-1717), which document the Kangxi emperor's 1013
trip from Beijing to Nanjing in the Chinese heartland in 1698. These square AN IMPERIAL BLACKISH-BLUE SATIN BROCADE ROBE, CHUBA
flying tiger banners in color schemes corresponding to the eight banners THE BROCADE, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
(gusa) of the Qing army are seen flying from sterns of the vessels in the fleet The side-closing chuba was tailored in Tibet from Chinese Kangxi-period
that accompanies the emperor crossing the Yangtze River. See E. S. Rawski dark-blue silk brocade, woven in gold and multi-colored threads with
and J. Rawson, eds., China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795, London, Royal five-clawed dragons grasping flaming pearls and superimposed against a
Academy of Arts, 2005, no. 13, pp. 86-9 and 388-89. These banners seem to background of cloud clusters picked out in various shades of pink, blue, green
indicate the boats carrying banner generals. and ochre, all above the terrestrial diagram at the hem. The collar and facing
are fashioned from waves.
A banner with a flying tiger brocaded on a yellow ground in a private
collection is illustrated by J. Vollmer and J. Simcox, "Tiger-stripe Patterns on 56 in. (142.2 cm.) long x 83º in (211.5 cm.) wide
Chinese Textiles in the AEDTA Collection," Orientations April 1997, p. 68. A
pair of embroidered tiger banners on white grounds with red borders are in $15,000-25,000
the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (unpublished).
Another in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, PROVENANCE:
Robert Brandt, London, 2006.
embroidered on an olive-green twill ground within a red border is illustrated
by M. Hunt Kahlenberg, ed., The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Textiles and
Objects from the Collections of Lloyd Costen and the Neutrogena Corporation, 美國私人珍藏
New York, 1998, pl. 104, p. 101. Three other known embroidered examples are 御製藍地織錦緞彩雲金龍紋藏袍 袍料：清康熙
held in private collections.
來源:
Robert Brandt, 倫敦, 2006年。

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