LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A BLUE-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK GAUZE DRAGON ROBE, JI FU
Late 19th Century
Worked on the front and back in counted stitch and couched gold threads with nine five-clawed writhing dragons confronting flaming pearls, reserved on a ground of cloud clusters interspersed with crane roundels, bats and other auspicious emblems, picked out in shades of blue, green, yellow and white against a dark blue ground, with black-ground collar and cuffs similarly decorated and sleeve extensions with gold couched stripes, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
54in. (138.4cm.) long
Late 19th Century
Worked on the front and back in counted stitch and couched gold threads with nine five-clawed writhing dragons confronting flaming pearls, reserved on a ground of cloud clusters interspersed with crane roundels, bats and other auspicious emblems, picked out in shades of blue, green, yellow and white against a dark blue ground, with black-ground collar and cuffs similarly decorated and sleeve extensions with gold couched stripes, all above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem
54in. (138.4cm.) long