A RARE DAOIST PRIEST ROBE

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH

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A RARE DAOIST PRIEST ROBE
17TH/18TH CENTURY

Elaborately and finely worked on the back with couched gold and multi-colored, needle-looped threads and metallic gold paper foil with an overall pattern of cranes enclosed in lozenge-shaped clouds, surrounding the central pagoda encircled by twenty-four gold discs, above the five Daoist talismanic insignia, the elaborate moon and sun symbols on the shoulders, all on a metallic net ground over dark green silk, within borders trimmed in gold-paper strips with further cranes and clouds and various mythical aquatic animals at the hem, the front with an alternating crane and dragon border, some repairs and alterations--76½in. (194.3cm.) long

拍品专文

A very similar Daoist priest robe was sold Sotheby's New York, May 31, 1994, lot 194. Compare, also, the robe in the University of Oregon Museum of Art, illustrated by John E. Vollmer, Decoding Dragons: Status Garments in Ch'ing Dynasty China, 1983, p. 141, pl. 92