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A KESI BLACK-GROUND SURCOAT
19TH CENTURY
Finely woven on the front and back with eight dragon roundels displaying a gold dragon amidst cloud scrolls and Buddhistic emblems, the cuffs of each with three smaller roundels, all reserved on a black ground above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, all picked out in shades of red, blue, purple, yellow and white reserved on a black ground--55½in. (141cm.) long
19TH CENTURY
Finely woven on the front and back with eight dragon roundels displaying a gold dragon amidst cloud scrolls and Buddhistic emblems, the cuffs of each with three smaller roundels, all reserved on a black ground above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, all picked out in shades of red, blue, purple, yellow and white reserved on a black ground--55½in. (141cm.) long