AN EMBROIDERED 'APRICOT-YELLOW' SILK PARTIALLY-MADE IMPERIAL DRAGON ROBE FOR AN HEIR APPARENT OR HIS CONSORT
XIANFENG PERIOD (1851-1861)
AN EMBROIDERED 'APRICOT-YELLOW' SILK PARTIALLY-MADE IMPERIAL DRAGON ROBE FOR AN HEIR APPARENT OR HIS CONSORT XIANFENG PERIOD (1851-1861) The robe ready for tailoring as the three panels that comprise the body have been sewn together, the sleeves have been cut out and seamed and the hem created, the soft orange silk finely worked in couched gold and silver thread and satin stitch with nine silver-faced, five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst clusters of clouds interspersed with shou characters and bats suspending ribbon-tied wan emblems above a wide terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe 57½ in. (146 cm.) x 58 in. (148 cm.) maximum width
AN EMBROIDERED 'APRICOT-YELLOW' SILK PARTIALLY-MADE IMPERIAL DRAGON ROBE FOR AN HEIR APPARENT OR HIS CONSORT
XIANFENG PERIOD (1851-1861)
AN EMBROIDERED 'APRICOT-YELLOW' SILK PARTIALLY-MADE IMPERIAL DRAGON ROBE FOR AN HEIR APPARENT OR HIS CONSORT XIANFENG PERIOD (1851-1861) The robe ready for tailoring as the three panels that comprise the body have been sewn together, the sleeves have been cut out and seamed and the hem created, the soft orange silk finely worked in couched gold and silver thread and satin stitch with nine silver-faced, five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst clusters of clouds interspersed with shou characters and bats suspending ribbon-tied wan emblems above a wide terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe 57½ in. (146 cm.) x 58 in. (148 cm.) maximum width
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