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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A RARE IMPERIAL KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL DRAGON ROBE PROBABLY MADE FOR THE
DOWAGER EMPRESS, MANGPAO

19TH CENTURY
The robe is fnely woven in shades of blue, red, ochre, pale violet and gold on the front and back, with nine
fve-clawed dragons pursuing faming pearls amidst clusters of clouds interspersed with bats holding
beriboned wan emblems and peaches, shou characters, the eight Buddhist emblems, auspicious motifs
and the twelve symbols of imperial authority, all reserved on an imperial yellow ground above the terrestrial
diagram with lishui stripe at the hem, with dark blue-ground cufs, collar and sleeve bands decorated with
further dragons and clouds.
89Ω x 55Ω in. (227.3 x 140.9 cm.)
$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE

Teresa Coleman, Hong Kong, mid-1990s.
清十九世紀 御製緙絲金龍十二章蟒袍

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