THE PROPERTY OF AN EAST COAST INSTITUTION
AN EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND SILK DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch with nine five-clawed contorted dragons amidst dense cloud clusters enveloping bats confronting wan emblems or double-peach sprays and various Daoist emblems, picked out in shades of blue, green, gray and ochre reserved on a dark blue ground, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, collar loose--55in. long
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AN EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND SILK DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch with nine five-clawed contorted dragons amidst dense cloud clusters enveloping bats confronting wan emblems or double-peach sprays and various Daoist emblems, picked out in shades of blue, green, gray and ochre reserved on a dark blue ground, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, collar loose--55in. long