AN EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND DRAGON ROBE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread on the front and back with nine five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst dense, multi-coloured clouds interspersed with the eight Buddhist emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem--53¾in. long

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AN EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND DRAGON ROBE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread on the front and back with nine five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst dense, multi-coloured clouds interspersed with the eight Buddhist emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem--53¾in. long

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