Lot 107
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A BLACK-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK GAUZE IMPERIAL CONSORT'S SURCOAT, PU FU
A BLACK-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK GAUZE IMPERIAL CONSORT'S SURCOAT, PU FU

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Details
A BLACK-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK GAUZE IMPERIAL CONSORT'S SURCOAT, PU FU
Late 19th Century
Worked on the front and back panels in multicolored counted stitch and couched gold threads with eight roundels, each displaying five-clawed dragons grasping flaming pearls enveloped by dense clouds incorporating the Eight Buddhist Emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, the sleeves with three smaller dragon roundels
56in. (142.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

Compare a similar surcoat illustrated by J.E. Vollmer, Decoding Dragons: Status Garments in Ch'ing Dynasty China, University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1983, p. 49, pl. 12. Compare, also, the example sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 442.