A summer weave gauze court robe (chi'fu)
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A summer weave gauze court robe (chi'fu)

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A summer weave gauze court robe (chi'fu)
the blue gauze embroidered with nine gilt dragons amongst cloud-scrolls worked in counted stitch and gilt shou characters, with a polychrome sea-wave border, the borders and horse-shoe cuffs of black gauze similarly worked, (taken up at the waist), mid 19th century
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