A BLUE GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK DRAGON ROBE, LATE QING DYNASTY elaborately worked in couched gold threads with five-clawed writhing dragons amidst stylized clouds and auspicious emblems above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe worked in padded relief with various marine and mythical animals, reserved on a royal blue ground--50½in. long; together with a blue-ground embroidered silk dragon panel, 19th century, worked in satin stitch and Peking knot with dragons above the terrestrial diagram superimposed by large peony heads, some losses--78 in. high, 53 in. wide (2)

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A BLUE GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK DRAGON ROBE, LATE QING DYNASTY elaborately worked in couched gold threads with five-clawed writhing dragons amidst stylized clouds and auspicious emblems above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe worked in padded relief with various marine and mythical animals, reserved on a royal blue ground--50½in. long; together with a blue-ground embroidered silk dragon panel, 19th century, worked in satin stitch and Peking knot with dragons above the terrestrial diagram superimposed by large peony heads, some losses--78 in. high, 53 in. wide (2)

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