AN EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SILK DRAGON WOMAN'S SEMI-FORMAL COURT ROBE, JI FU ROBE

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AN EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SILK DRAGON WOMAN'S SEMI-FORMAL COURT ROBE, JI FU ROBE
LATE 19TH CENTURY

Worked on the front and back in satin stitch and couched gold threads with nine five-clawed dragons writhing amidst dense, stylized cloud clusters interspersed with bats, peony and Buddhist emblems picked out in Peking knot, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, the wide sleeves with dragon bands and cuffs, repeated at the collar, all picked out in bright shades of blue, green and yellow against a brick-red ground--56in. (142.3cm.) long

拍品專文

Because of its red color, this robe may have been used for a wedding. A similar robe was included in the exhibition, Five Colors of the Universe, Symbolism in Clothes and Fabrics of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), Edmonton Art Gallery, November 7, 1980-January 11, 1981, illustrated by John E. Vollmer in the Catalogue, p. 64