Description A Pale Brown Ground Embroidered Silk Dragon Robe, Jifu
LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY
the pale ground of chestnut satin couched with metallic gilt wrapped threads forming five-clawed dragons after flaming pearls amidst a ground of bats and cloud scrolls interspersed with roundels enclosing beribboned auspicious symbols worked in needleloop stitches, all above border of turbulent waves crashing with auspicious emblems and craggy rocks beneath a terrestrial diagram; framed and glazed.
Length from collar to hem 52 1/2 in., 133.4 cm.
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