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A BLUE-GROUND COUCHED ‘NINE-DRAGONS’ GOLD ROBE, Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth, London, 1996
JIFU An English private collection
Circa 1850
The robe worked in couched gold threads with nine writhing five- 來源：於1996年購自倫敦古董商Linda Wrigglesworth
clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst clusters of vaporous 英國私人收藏
ruyi clouds interspersed with bats and the Eight Buddhist Emblems,
all reserved on a blue ground above auspicious emblems rising from The gold thread employed for decorating this remarkable robe was
the terrestrial diagram and a lishui stripe at the hem interspersed with made by beating high carat gold into gold leaf and pasting it on to a
blossoming peonies, with midnight-blue cuffs and collar decorated paper support with lac from a lacquer tree. The gilt material would then
with further dragons and clouds. be burnished and cut into fine strips before being wrapped around a
220cm (86 1/2in) wide x 143cm (56 2/8in) high. silk thread core. The gold threads would then be couched down on
top of the silk to form the dragons.
£7,000 - 10,000
CNY61,000 - 88,000 Compare with a similar blue-ground gold couched ‘dragon’ robe, late
19th century, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2019,
lot 496.
約1850年 藍地繡金龍紋吉服袍

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