A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED 'TWELVE-SYMBOL DRAGON' ROBE, JIFU
A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED 'TWELVE-SYMBOL DRAGON' ROBE, JIFU QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Finely couched in gold and silver tread with nine contorted five-clawed dragons clutching 'flaming pearls', further embroidered with satin-silk threads in fine detail in shades of blue, green, grey, red and ochre with the twelve imperial symbols amid ruyi shaped wispy clouds and bats in flight, interspersed with shou characters couched in gold, all reserved on a rich yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram flanked by rose sprigs and further bats in flight rising from rolling and cresting waves and with a broad lishui stripe at the hem, with further striding dragons in the dark blue-ground border at the collar and cuffs, the sleeves stitched with finely folded pleats, the interior lined in blue silk 56 1 /4 in. (143 cm.) long
A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED 'TWELVE-SYMBOL DRAGON' ROBE, JIFU
A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL YELLOW EMBROIDERED 'TWELVE-SYMBOL DRAGON' ROBE, JIFU QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Finely couched in gold and silver tread with nine contorted five-clawed dragons clutching 'flaming pearls', further embroidered with satin-silk threads in fine detail in shades of blue, green, grey, red and ochre with the twelve imperial symbols amid ruyi shaped wispy clouds and bats in flight, interspersed with shou characters couched in gold, all reserved on a rich yellow ground above the terrestrial diagram flanked by rose sprigs and further bats in flight rising from rolling and cresting waves and with a broad lishui stripe at the hem, with further striding dragons in the dark blue-ground border at the collar and cuffs, the sleeves stitched with finely folded pleats, the interior lined in blue silk 56 1 /4 in. (143 cm.) long
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