AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL BLUE-GROUND ROBE, JIFU
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL BLUE-GROUND ROBE, JIFU JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) Finely woven in the split-weave technique with the prescribed nine five-clawed dragons clutching flaming pearls and hovering above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe, amidst multicolored ruyi -form cloud clusters interspersed with auspicious emblems such as bats suspending double peach sprays and various renditions of shou characters, the twelve symbols of Imperial authority arranged in three groups of four: the sun, moon, constellation and rock around the neck; the fu symbol, ax, paired dragons and golden pheasant around the body; the pair of temple cups, aquatic grass, grains of millet and flames above the waves, the dragons in gold and the motifs picked out in shades of blue, yellow, red and green, and reserved against a marine-blue ground 55¾ in. (141.5 cm.) long x 83½ in. (212.1 cm.) across
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL BLUE-GROUND ROBE, JIFU
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI TWELVE-SYMBOL BLUE-GROUND ROBE, JIFU JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) Finely woven in the split-weave technique with the prescribed nine five-clawed dragons clutching flaming pearls and hovering above the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe, amidst multicolored ruyi -form cloud clusters interspersed with auspicious emblems such as bats suspending double peach sprays and various renditions of shou characters, the twelve symbols of Imperial authority arranged in three groups of four: the sun, moon, constellation and rock around the neck; the fu symbol, ax, paired dragons and golden pheasant around the body; the pair of temple cups, aquatic grass, grains of millet and flames above the waves, the dragons in gold and the motifs picked out in shades of blue, yellow, red and green, and reserved against a marine-blue ground 55¾ in. (141.5 cm.) long x 83½ in. (212.1 cm.) across
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