19TH CENTURY

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AN IMPERIAL YELLOW SILK DAMASK RIDING COAT, HUANG MA GUA
19TH CENTURY
It is decorated allover with large roundels enclosing two confronting five-clawed dragons writhing about a flaming pearl amidst clouds. It is padded with silk wadding and lined with blue silk.

来源

Charlotte Horstmann Collection, acquired in the 1990s.
The collection of John Eric Riis (b.1947).

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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In Imperial Wardrobe, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, London 1990, p.116, authors Gary Dickinson and Linda Wrigglesworth write that only the highest-ranking ministers and officers of the imperial bodyguard could be honoured with the privilege of wearing a yellow riding jacket.
A related example is illustrated in Ruling from the Dragon Throne by John E. Vollmer, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2002, p.48.
Another similar example is illustrated in Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City edited by Ming Wilson with the Palace Museum, Beijing, V&A Publishing, 2010, p.116, fig.13, V&A: T.128-1966.