A BLUE-GROUND KESI DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, finely woven in shades of blue, green, purple, ochre, rose and gold with six dragons confronting flaming pearls, amidst dense stylized clouds interspersed with bats, 'auspicious' characters and Buddhistic emblems, all reserved on a blue ground above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at hem, with dragon cuffs below dark blue sleeves--57 in. long

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A BLUE-GROUND KESI DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, finely woven in shades of blue, green, purple, ochre, rose and gold with six dragons confronting flaming pearls, amidst dense stylized clouds interspersed with bats, 'auspicious' characters and Buddhistic emblems, all reserved on a blue ground above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at hem, with dragon cuffs below dark blue sleeves--57 in. long

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