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A Tibetan chuba
made up from an Imperial Chinese dragon robe of yellow silk finely embroidered in coloured silks with eight dragons, the ninth dragon forming the lower sleeves, among clouds and bats, with the twelve imperial symbols, over a sea-wave border, lined in golden yellow silk damask woven with dragon roundels, 18th century
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made up from an Imperial Chinese dragon robe of yellow silk finely embroidered in coloured silks with eight dragons, the ninth dragon forming the lower sleeves, among clouds and bats, with the twelve imperial symbols, over a sea-wave border, lined in golden yellow silk damask woven with dragon roundels, 18th century
See Colour Plate