A FINE CHINESE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE
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A FINE CHINESE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE
The robe is finely woven in shades of blue, green, red, aubergine, ochre, white and gold with nine contorted five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst dense, stylised clouds interspersed with bats in flight, some in groups of five forming the wufu, and with shou characters picked out in gold, all reserved on a bright apricot coloured ground, above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the hem and on the upper sleeves, and with dark blue-ground dragon cuffs and collar worked with further dragons.
Dimension: L. 194 cm. H. 140 cm.
The robe is finely woven in shades of blue, green, red, aubergine, ochre, white and gold with nine contorted five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst dense, stylised clouds interspersed with bats in flight, some in groups of five forming the wufu, and with shou characters picked out in gold, all reserved on a bright apricot coloured ground, above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the hem and on the upper sleeves, and with dark blue-ground dragon cuffs and collar worked with further dragons.
Dimension: L. 194 cm. H. 140 cm.
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A FINE CHINESE IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED DRAGON ROBE
Estimate $15,000 - $25,000
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