拍品 8
8
A formal court robe (chi'fu) of blue silk, heavily embroidered in gilt and silver metal thread, couched down in brightly coloured silks, with nine dragons amidst clouds scrolls, Shou characters, bats and auspicious emblems above a sea-wave border, the borders and cuffs of black silk similarly worked, circa 1900 (stains, buttons missing, sleeves tucked)
A formal court robe (chi'fu) of blue silk, heavily embroidered in gilt and silver metal thread, couched down in brightly coloured silks, with nine dragons amidst clouds scrolls, Shou characters, bats and auspicious emblems above a sea-wave border, the borders and cuffs of black silk similarly worked, circa 1900 (stains, buttons missing, sleeves tucked)

細節
A formal court robe (chi'fu) of blue silk, heavily embroidered in gilt and silver metal thread, couched down in brightly coloured silks, with nine dragons amidst clouds scrolls, Shou characters, bats and auspicious emblems above a sea-wave border, the borders and cuffs of black silk similarly worked, circa 1900 (stains, buttons missing, sleeves tucked)
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拍品專文

The heavy use of metal thread along with brightly coloured couching threads suggest that this robe may be Straits Chinese in origin