Lot 272
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FINE FUR-LINED EMBROIDERED TURQUOISE-GROUND SILK LADY'S INFORMAL ROBE

Details
A FINE FUR-LINED EMBROIDERED TURQUOISE-GROUND SILK LADY'S INFORMAL ROBE
CIRCA 1900

Finely worked on the front and back panels with an allover pattern of flowering peony branches picked out in shades of purple, pink, and blue, within purple brocade borders and black-ground bands at the sides, collar and cuffs, the cuffs with cream-ground inner sleeves similarly embroidered, all against a satiny pale aqua ground, the entire robe lined in brown and white fur
54¼in. (137.8cm.) long

Lot Essay

Compare a pale yellow kesi robe cut in the same style and with the same design of bold, flowering peony branches picked out in three colors, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Gongyi Meishu; Yin Ran Zhi Xiu (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts, Arts and Crafts, Textiles), vol. 7, Beijing, 1987, p. 109