A PALE BROWN-GROUND KESI DRAGON ROBE
19TH CENTURY
Woven on the front and back with eight gold five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst stylized cloud whorls interspersed with bats and Daoist emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram bordered by a lishui stripe at the hem, picked out in shades of blue, green, red and gray reserved on a pale chocolate-brown ground--53¼ in. (135.2cm.) long
A PALE BROWN-GROUND KESI DRAGON ROBE
19TH CENTURY
Woven on the front and back with eight gold five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst stylized cloud whorls interspersed with bats and Daoist emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram bordered by a lishui stripe at the hem, picked out in shades of blue, green, red and gray reserved on a pale chocolate-brown ground--53¼ in. (135.2cm.) long
