A BLUE-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, worked in couched gold threads and multi-colored satin stitch with nine contorted dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst stylized clouds, bats, and various Buddhist emblems, reserved on a dark blue ground, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, sleeves shortened, alteration at side--47 in. long