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PROPERTY FROM THE JEFFREY M. KAPLAN
COLLECTION
A CORAL-GROUND EMBROIDERED
‘DRAGON’ ROBE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
with eight ve-clawed dragons surrounded
by colorful ruyi clouds, bats, babao, and shou
characters, all above lishui stripes and waves,
bordered at the collar and chest with the same
embroidered fabric, the sleeves trimmed with
pale blue-green silk embroidered with scholarly
and auspicious objects, lined with sage-green silk
Height 44¼ in., 112.4 cm
PROVENANCE
Linda Wrigglesworth, London, 2007.
$ 5,000-7,000
㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ䲭䶆三㘿ℓẁ暚漵䲳堵
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PROPERTY FROM THE JEFFREY M. KAPLAN
COLLECTION
A BROWN EMBROIDERED
‘DRAGON’ ROBE (JIFU)
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
with eight ve-clawed dragons surrounded by
colorful ruyi clouds, bats, babao, and ames, all
above lishui stripes, bordered with a navy blue-
ground silk repeating the motif, navy blue ribbed
silk sleeves, lined with robin’s egg-blue silk
Height 56½ in., 143.5 cm
PROVENANCE
L’Asie Exotique, La Jolla, CA, 1998.
$ 4,000-6,000
㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ楁刚䶆三ℓ⎱䤍暚漵䲳⎱㚵
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