Details
TWO EMBROIDERED SILK THEATRICAL ROBES
The first finely decorated in couched threads of gold, pale green and blue with eight contorted dragons amidst clouds and flame scrolls, as well as phoenix, all above a stylized terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe emblazoned with Buddhistic lions reserved on a bright red ground--41in. (104.3cm.) long; together with a silver-gray ground robe, decorated in couched gold thread with a bold contorted dragon amidst brightly colored, leafy peony worked in satin stitch--51½in. (130.9cm.) long (2)
The first finely decorated in couched threads of gold, pale green and blue with eight contorted dragons amidst clouds and flame scrolls, as well as phoenix, all above a stylized terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe emblazoned with Buddhistic lions reserved on a bright red ground--41in. (104.3cm.) long; together with a silver-gray ground robe, decorated in couched gold thread with a bold contorted dragon amidst brightly colored, leafy peony worked in satin stitch--51½in. (130.9cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Anathalie Boshko Brown, New York (the second robe)
Further details
See illustration of one