A BLUE-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, worked in satin stitch and couched gold thread with nine writhing dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst clusters of stylized clouds interspersed with Daoist emblems, picked out in Peking knot above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, woven in bright colors on a royal-blue ground--54½ in. long