A BLUE-GROUND SILK GAUZE DRAGON ROBE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, worked in couched gold threads and counted stitch on the front and back with nine writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls against a ground of dense cloud clusters interspersed with Daoist emblems and bats, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, picked out in shades of red, blue and purple against a navy-blue ground, with black-ground collar and cuffs,--53in. long