AN EMBROIDERED BROWN SILK-GROUND PADDED 'DRAGON’ ROBE, MANGPAO , AND A BLUE-GROUND KESI 'DRAGON’ ROBE, MANGPAO THE EMBROIDERED BROWN ROBE, SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY The brown silk ground is worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch on the front and back with nine five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst ruyi -form clouds, bats, and cranes, all around a central beribboned basket of double peaches. The terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem and arms are both tossed with auspicious emblems. The kesi robe is woven with nine dragons on a blue ground decorated with florets within gold quatrefoil borders, all interspersed with ruyi -shaped clouds, wan emblems, bats, peaches, peonies and lotus flowers above cresting waves and the lishui stripe. The brown silk robe: 55 ½ in. (141 cm.) long; 56 ¼ in. (143 cm.) wide The blue kesi robe: 55 ½ in. (141 cm.) long; 80 ¾ in. (205 cm.) wide Provenance Private English Collection, acquired prior to 2000.
AN EMBROIDERED BROWN SILK-GROUND PADDED 'DRAGON’ ROBE, MANGPAO , AND A BLUE-GROUND KESI 'DRAGON’ ROBE, MANGPAO THE EMBROIDERED BROWN ROBE, SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY The brown silk ground is worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch on the front and back with nine five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst ruyi -form clouds, bats, and cranes, all around a central beribboned basket of double peaches. The terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hem and arms are both tossed with auspicious emblems. The kesi robe is woven with nine dragons on a blue ground decorated with florets within gold quatrefoil borders, all interspersed with ruyi -shaped clouds, wan emblems, bats, peaches, peonies and lotus flowers above cresting waves and the lishui stripe. The brown silk robe: 55 ½ in. (141 cm.) long; 56 ¼ in. (143 cm.) wide The blue kesi robe: 55 ½ in. (141 cm.) long; 80 ¾ in. (205 cm.) wide Provenance Private English Collection, acquired prior to 2000.
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