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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
2067
AN UNUSUAL EMBROIDERED MIDNIGHT-BLUE-GROUND SURCOAT
WITH CRANE ROUNDELS, GUA
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The midnight-blue satin is embroidered with eight crane roundels
interspersed with various auspicious treasures above the terrestrial
diagram and lishui stripe, the decoration repeated again on the cuffs.
54æ in. (139 cm.) long x 71æ in. (182.2 cm.) wide
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Ethno-Textil, Germany, 2005.
清十九世紀末 石青地繡仙鶴紋褂
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(detail)
