A BLUE-GROUND KESI DRAGON ROBE, 19TH CENTURY, finely woven primarily in gold threads on the front and back with nine contorted five-clawed dragons contesting sacred pearls, amidst cloud clusters interspersed with the Eight Buddhist emblems, bats and shou-character medallions, with blue-ground collar and cuffs similalry decorated, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem, with highlights in orange-red, reserved on a gray-blue ground, repairs at shoulders and collar--56in. long