Lot Essay
The fabric is Chinese in manufacture, made specifically for the Tibetan market
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AN APRICOT-YELLOW SILK BROCADE CHUBA
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Probably made for a high-ranking lama, woven in gold, bluish-lavender, coral, pink and green with contorted five-clawed dragons on the front and back amidst cloud clusters and the eight Buddhist emblems, reserved on an orange-yellow ground, the design repeated on the collar and cuffs, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
63in. (160cm.) long
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Probably made for a high-ranking lama, woven in gold, bluish-lavender, coral, pink and green with contorted five-clawed dragons on the front and back amidst cloud clusters and the eight Buddhist emblems, reserved on an orange-yellow ground, the design repeated on the collar and cuffs, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
63in. (160cm.) long