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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
940
AN EMBROIDERED BROWN-GROUND SILK DRAGON ROBE,
MANGPAO
19TH CENTURY
The brown silk ground is worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch on
the front and back with nine fve-clawed dragons confronting faming pearls
amidst ruyi-form clouds, bats, clusters of paired bats and beribboned peaches,
all around a central beribboned basket of double peaches. The terrestrial
diagram and lishui stripe at the hem and arms are both tossed with
auspicious emblems.
78º x 54 in. (198.7 x 137.1 cm.)
$12,000-18,000
清十九世紀 醬地緞繡如意雲金蟒紋蟒袍
(detail)
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