A SILK EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND DRAGON ROBE, worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread on the front and back with eight writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls against a ground of clouds interspersed with bats, peaches and the bajixiang, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, and gold couched auspicious characters, all picked out in shades of pink, soft blue, grey and green against a cornflower-blue ground--51¾ in. long