AN EXTREMELY FINE EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK 'LOTUS' INFORMAL ROBE, CHENYI
AN EXTREMELY FINE EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK 'LOTUS' INFORMAL ROBE, CHENYI QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY Worked in a combination of counted silk-satin stitch and couched metallic threads in various shades of blue and tones of silver on the front and back panels, the design of lotus clusters superimposed on a wan fret ground, within borders of blue silk brocade decorated with cranes among clouds, and wider blue borders decorated in a manner similar to the main panels and repeated at the collar, with trimmings of blue, pink and gold wan fret, and additional crane roundels on the cuffs, fastened with five gilt metal ball-and-loop toggle buttons 53 1/4 in. (135 cm) long
AN EXTREMELY FINE EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK 'LOTUS' INFORMAL ROBE, CHENYI
AN EXTREMELY FINE EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK 'LOTUS' INFORMAL ROBE, CHENYI QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY Worked in a combination of counted silk-satin stitch and couched metallic threads in various shades of blue and tones of silver on the front and back panels, the design of lotus clusters superimposed on a wan fret ground, within borders of blue silk brocade decorated with cranes among clouds, and wider blue borders decorated in a manner similar to the main panels and repeated at the collar, with trimmings of blue, pink and gold wan fret, and additional crane roundels on the cuffs, fastened with five gilt metal ball-and-loop toggle buttons 53 1/4 in. (135 cm) long
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