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AN EMBROIDERED DARK BLUE-GROUND SUIT OF CEREMONIAL ARMOR
AN EMBROIDERED DARK BLUE-GROUND SUIT OF CEREMONIAL ARMOR
AN EMBROIDERED DARK BLUE-GROUND SUIT OF CEREMONIAL ARMOR
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AN EMBROIDERED DARK BLUE-GROUND SUIT OF CEREMONIAL ARMOR

LATE QING DYNASTY

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AN EMBROIDERED DARK BLUE-GROUND SUIT OF CEREMONIAL ARMOR
LATE QING DYNASTY
The suit is worked on dark blue satin and decorated with circular and square brass bosses trimmed with black velvet. Each component is embroidered with dragon roundels in satin stitch and couched gold thread, with details highlighted in green peacock filament. The ensemble comprises a jacket, an apron, an apron panel, two epaulettes with gilt-metal plaques, two shaped armpit flaps, two rectangular abdominal flaps, a gilt-metal helmet with finial and an underhat.
Jacket: 82 5⁄8 in. (210 cm.) long; apron: 45 5⁄8 in. (116 cm.) long; helmet with finial: 29 7⁄8 in. (76 cm.) high
Provenance
Grant Antiques, San Francisco, 13 April 1991.
V. Stanulis, Torrington, Connecticut.
Joseph T Hajek (1936-2023), Winsted, Connecticut.
Mason Antiques, Connecticut.

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Lot Essay

While the present suit of armor would have been made for ceremonial purposes only, its construction was based on armor used for protection in battle. Each regiment of the Eight Banner army wore uniforms in the colors of their banner. The dark-blue ground of the present uniform would have been reserved for a member of the Cavalry Brigade Banner, assigned to protect the capital city. A comparable dark blue-ground suit of ceremonial armor is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (acc. no. 42.8.331B-I), and is illustrated in R. D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Chi’ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Volume I, Minneapolis, 2000, pp. 344-345, no. 136.

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