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A TIBETAN ARISTROCRAT'S SURCOAT
The material and the construction probably early 20th century, finely embroidered in couched gold threads and satin stitch with eight contorted five-clawed dragons amidst cloud scrolls, shou characters and the twelve Imperial symbols, all superimposed against a ground of interlocking ruyi flowerheads and reserved on a bright yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
51 in. (129.5 cm.) long
The material and the construction probably early 20th century, finely embroidered in couched gold threads and satin stitch with eight contorted five-clawed dragons amidst cloud scrolls, shou characters and the twelve Imperial symbols, all superimposed against a ground of interlocking ruyi flowerheads and reserved on a bright yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
51 in. (129.5 cm.) long
Provenance
By repute, former collection of Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
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Exhibited:
Exeter, New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Tibet Transcendent: Where the World Meets the Sky, February 2001.
Exeter, New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Tibet Transcendent: Where the World Meets the Sky, February 2001.