A RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL EMPRESS'S DRAGON ROBE LATE 19TH CENTURY Possibly made for the Empress Dowager, finely woven on the front and back in shades of blue, green, red, gray, ochre and gold with eight contorted five-clawed dragons clutching flaming pearls, amidst stylized clouds interspersed with bats, 'auspicious' characters and the twelve imperial symbols, superimposed on a pattern of dense wan emblems and ruyi flowerheads, all reserved on a rich, yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the hem, with a dark blue-ground dragon border at the collar and cuffs, some splitting and repairs--56in. (141.9cm.) long
A RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL EMPRESS'S DRAGON ROBE LATE 19TH CENTURY Possibly made for the Empress Dowager, finely woven on the front and back in shades of blue, green, red, gray, ochre and gold with eight contorted five-clawed dragons clutching flaming pearls, amidst stylized clouds interspersed with bats, 'auspicious' characters and the twelve imperial symbols, superimposed on a pattern of dense wan emblems and ruyi flowerheads, all reserved on a rich, yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the hem, with a dark blue-ground dragon border at the collar and cuffs, some splitting and repairs--56in. (141.9cm.) long
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