拍品 263
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A LIME-GREEN-GROUND SILK BROCADE THEATRICAL VEST

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A LIME-GREEN-GROUND SILK BROCADE THEATRICAL VEST
EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Finely worked on the front and back panels with four writhing five-clawed dragons picked out in gold threads amidst cloud wisps and flames above a terrestrial diagram at the multi-colored tasseled hem, all within brass-studded black velvet borders within orange and yellow brocade bands
52in. (132cm.) long

拍品專文

A very similar vest, but with a yellow ground, is illustrated by Verity Wilson, Chinese Dress, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986, p. 43, no. 29; and again by Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery, New York, 1979, fig. 6-2

The velvet bands with reflective gold-washed brass bosses and the multi-colored silk cord fringe on this lot are consistent with theatre costume made for opera troupes under imperial patronage