Lot Essay
The lower sleeves, cuffs and facing belong to a later scholar's robe and would seem to have been added in the West.
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QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1800
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AN IMPERIAL CHI'FU OR DRAGON ROBE OF YELLOW SILK
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1800
embroidered with a fret-pattern ground with nine gilt dragons, embellished with all twelve symbols of Imperial Authority, with a turbulent sea-wave border, re-modelled in 20th century
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1800
embroidered with a fret-pattern ground with nine gilt dragons, embellished with all twelve symbols of Imperial Authority, with a turbulent sea-wave border, re-modelled in 20th century
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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Please note that there has been an error in the catalogue description of this lot : this robe does not bear any symbols of Imperial Authority.
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