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1444 PROPERTY FROM THE JEFFREY M. KAPLAN COLLECTION

PROPERTY OF A LADY A BLUE EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE
(JIFU)
A FIRST RANK CIVIL OFFICIAL WINTER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
ROBE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY with eight four-clawed dragons surrounded by colorful ruyi
clouds, bats, cranes, shou characters, and immortality
the front and back of the midnight blue silk padded robe emblems, the fth claw of each paw e aced, all above lishui
centered with an embroidered square for a rst rank o cial, stripes, bordered with a navy blue-ground silk repeating the
depicting a crane among the eight Daoist emblems above a motif, gold-striped navy blue silk sleeves, lined with yellow silk
lishui stripe, with gilt metal button closure Height 55¾ in., 141.6 cm
Height 46½ in., 118 cm $ 3,000-5,000
$ 5,000-7,000
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186 SOTHEBY’S
A MANCHU MILITARY OFFICER’S
CEREMONIAL ARMOR
QING DYANSTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

comprising a padded silk waist-length jacket, two-panel
wraparound skirt, and shoulder plates, the silk of deep
aubergine color with brass studs allover and gold-wrapped
thread embroidered roundels containing four-clawed dragons
at the centers of the chest, back, skirt panels, and shoulder
plates, the shoulder plates trimmed with gilt-metal panels
incised with further dragons, trimmed in dark brown silk, lined
in sky-blue silk (4)
Height 60 in., 152.4 cm; Width 81½ in., 207 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Theoni V. Aldredge (1922-2011), Stamford,
Connecticut, acquired in the 1970s.
A complete set of armor of this type and period in the
collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art is published in
Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles in
the Minneapolis Institute of Art, vol. 1, Minneapolis, 2000,
pl. 136.
$ 3,000-5,000

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