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A BLUE-GROUND SILK GAUZE DRAGON ROBE, JI FU
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A BLUE-GROUND SILK GAUZE DRAGON ROBE, JI FU
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The fine gauze 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 ruyi-form clouds interspersed with bats and the bajixiang, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, picked out in shades of red, blue, green, yellow and brown against a cornflower-blue ground--53½in. (135.8cm) long
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The fine gauze 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 ruyi-form clouds interspersed with bats and the bajixiang, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, picked out in shades of red, blue, green, yellow and brown against a cornflower-blue ground--53½in. (135.8cm) long