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A BLUE-GROUND KESI WOMAN'S INFORMAL ROBE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Possibly made for the Empress Dowager or a member of her court, finely woven with an overall pattern of wisteria branches picked out in shades of mauve, green and silver interspersed with gold shou medallions reserved on an attractive sky-blue ground, all within similarly decorated black-ground borders; together with a dark blue-ground kesi court surcoat, pu fu, late 19th century, woven with eight roundels incorporating cranes surrounded by butterflies and flowers, above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem (stains and damage)
55½in. (141cm.) long and 55¼in. (140.4cm.) long (2)
