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A KESI-WEAVE IMPERIAL ROBE FRAGMENT A PAIR OF GAUZE ‘DRAGON’ HANGINGS
18th/19th century Mid Qing Dynasty
Finely woven in pastel colours and gilt thread with six gilt, horned Each of the narrow rectangular textiles finely and brightly embroidered
five-clawed dragons on a blue ground with a ruyi-lozenge pattern on the yellow ground with a central rectangular medallion of archaistic
alternately enclosing wan symbols and crab-apple flowerheads, chilong motifs, all above a sinuous five-clawed dragon emerging
interspersed with bats, cranes, gilt ‘shou’ roundels and bajixiang, from tumultuous waves clutching a flaming pearl, and below a further
all above a tumultuous wave border, the centre with a single dragon scaly dragon coiled amidst billowing clouds beside a flaming pearl, all
framed by a decorative border, all re-cut and mounted as a rectangular surmounted by a gold thread ‘shou’ medallion.
hanging. 243cm (95 5/8in) x 84cm (33in) Each 170x48cm (67x19in) (2).

£1,200 - 1,500 £4,000 - 6,000
CNY12,000 - 15,000 CNY39,000 - 58,000
HK$14,000 - 18,000 HK$47,000 - 71,000

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