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AN HEIR APPARENT APRICOT-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Finely worked on the front and back in satin stitch and couched gold threads with nine, contorted, five-clawed dragons grasping or confronting flaming pearls amidst dense cloud scrolls interspersed with bats, wan emblems and the Eight Buddhist emblems, as well as some 'precious objects' picked out in Peking knot, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, and picked out in shades of blue, yellow, red, gray and green reserved on an orange ground, yellow silk lining, some fading--53½in. (135.8cm.) long
