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A MANCHU NOBLEMAN’S CHESTNUT GROUND
BROCADE-WOVEN COURT ROBE, JIFU
Qianlong/Jiajing period
Woven in fine gilt-wrapped threads with four front-facing dragons at
top front, shoulders and back while four side-facing dragons appear
below, all chasing flaming pearls amid clouds and bats flying above
the lishui border, the subsidiary motifs woven in white, shades of blue,
green and orange, the existing neck bands, sleeves and cuffs added at
a later date.
53in (134.6cm) long

$10,000 - 15,000

清乾隆或 彩 龍紋

The brown background of the robe, known at qiuxiangse (tawny
incense), was reserved for princes and other members of the imperial
clan: see, for example, John Vollmer, uling from the ragon Throne
2002, pp. 83-84 and fig. 4.3, an embroidered example from the
Daoguang period.

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