DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

Details

A VERY RARE APRICOT-GROUND KESI 'DRAGON' ROBE, MANGPAO
DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
Elements including the dragons' heads and flames are embellished with coral beads.
57 ½ x 66 ¾ in. (146.5 x 169.5 cm.)

Provenance

Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, early 1990s (by repute).

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Lot Essay

It is unusual that this robe is embellished with coral beads. A Guangxu-period yellow ‘twelve symbol’ robe embellished with both coral and seed pearls is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and is illustrated in V. Wilson, Chinese Dress, Oxford, 1986, p. 44.

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