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A LADY’S BLUE EMBROIDERED SEMI
FORMAL SILK ‘DRAGON’ ROBE JIFU
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

with nine ve-clawed dragons woven in gold-wrapped thread,
against a oral diaper ground with lingzhi-shaped clouds, bats,
wan and the ‘Eight Daoist Emblems’ embroidered in knotted
stitch, above terrestrial diagrams rising from crashing waves,
clouds and lishui stripe, the collar and sleeve bands similarly
decorated
Length 50¼ in., 136.5 cm; Width 43 in., 109.3 cm

$ 800-1,200

㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ啵⛘三㘿ℓẁ暚漵䲳⎱㚵

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PROPERTY OF A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR 891

A GROUP OF TWENTY SIX TEXTILES A CORAL GROUND KESI ‘DRAGON AND
QING DYNASTY 20TH CENTURY PHOENIX’ SKIRT
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
comprising a large blue silk ground cover woven with ‘Hundred
Boys’ and phoenix; a kesi ‘dragon’ altar frontal; a coral-ground woven with alternating panels of dragon and phoenix in pro le,
silk altar frontal embroidered with dragons; twenty-one panels with two frontal dragons accentuated by silver threads in
and fragments; a Japanese silk Buddhist priest’s robe; and a pursuit of ‘Flaming Pearls’ amidst peony, bats and phoenix
Japanese brocade panel (26) above terrestrial diagrams, the hem bordered by a blue and
Length of longest 89 in., 226.1 cm black peony and bat scroll in satin stitch, lined with green silk
PROVENANCE (2)
Collection of David F. Stitt, New York, acquired between 1950- Length 37 in., 94 cm
1963 in New York and London and thence by descent.
$ 3,000-5,000 $ 1,000-1,500

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