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A FINELY EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK DRAGON ROBE, MANGPAO
LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The robe is fnely worked in satin stitch and couched gold threads with nine
fve-clawed dragons confronting faming pearls amidst ruyi-form clouds
interspersed with bats, various fowers, and beribonned auspicious emblems,
all above the terrestrial diagram with dense, roiling waves tossed with
blossoms, bats, coral, and further emblems picked out in Peking knot.
55 x 90º in. (139.6 x 229.2 cm.)
$12,000-18,000
清十八世紀末/十九世紀初 藍地緞繡彩雲金蟒紋蟒袍
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