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A RED-GROUND SILK-EMBROIDERED ROBE
19TH CENTURY
Finely worked in satin stitch on the front and back with eight large roundels densely filled with double gourds, leafy vine and butterflies, the black-ground collar and cuffs similarly embroidered and bordered by gold-couched bands, all above a hem of lishui stripe beneath the terrestrial diagram, picked out in vibrant colors against a bright red ground--54¼in. (137.9cm.) long
19TH CENTURY
Finely worked in satin stitch on the front and back with eight large roundels densely filled with double gourds, leafy vine and butterflies, the black-ground collar and cuffs similarly embroidered and bordered by gold-couched bands, all above a hem of lishui stripe beneath the terrestrial diagram, picked out in vibrant colors against a bright red ground--54¼in. (137.9cm.) long