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AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL

‘TWELVE SYMBOL’ DRAGON ROBE, JIFU

Qianlong

Brigadier-General Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore, C.B., C.L.E., D.S.O. and his wife Mrs Shore

Brigadier-General Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore准將（1863-1922）收
(1863-1922) attended the Royal Military Academy at 藏，於1912年3月5至19日與夫人旅華期間購自北京，並
Sandhurst and entered the army in 1882. In 1884, 由後人保存迄今。
he was transferred to join the Indian Army in Bengal
and served in the 18th (Prince of Wales’ Own) Tiwana 於1882年入學桑德赫斯特皇家軍事學院，旋於1884年
Lancers Regiment during the Second World War. 平遷英屬印度陸軍，並於二戰期間於第十八（威爾斯王
子）蒂瓦納槍騎兵團服役。
The present Imperial robe was acquired by him during
his and Mrs Shore’s visit to Beijing between 5th-19th 1913年9月24日夫人信中談及夫婦二人並肩出席晚會：
March 1912, and thence by descent. 「Offley穿上北京購得的藍綢捻金銀袍」，詳見A.Jones
著，《The Letters of the Philadelphia Wife of a British
Mrs Shore’s letter of 24th September 1913 describes them Officer of the Indian Army（一位印度陸軍英籍軍官妻子
attending a fancy dress ball in which ”... Offley wore the 的書信）》，愛丁堡，1994年，頁167及196。
beautiful Chinese coat of blue and gold and silver that we
bought in Peking...”; see A.Jones, An Enchanted Journey:
The Letters of the Philadelphia Wife of a British Officer of
the Indian Army, Edinburgh, 1994, pp.167 and 196.

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