A FORMAL SURCOAT OF BLUE GAUZE SILK FOR THE FOURTH CIVIL RANK, BUFU
A FORMAL SURCOAT OF BLUE GAUZE SILK FOR THE FOURTH CIVIL RANK, BUFU

19TH CENTURY

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A FORMAL SURCOAT OF BLUE GAUZE SILK FOR THE FOURTH CIVIL RANK, BUFU
19TH CENTURY
The dark blue gauze coat decorated with a subtle woven shou roundel. The rank badge is applied with a goose for the Fourth Rank Civil Official to the front and to the reverse.
Provenance
Property from the Mr and Mrs C. Lefebvre Collection of Chinese Robes.
With Haig Galleries, Rochester, USA, December 2007.
Literature
Paul Haig and Marla Shelton, Threads of Gold: Chinese Textiles: Ming to Ch'ing, University of Michigan, 2006, p. 71.

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