AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI SURCOAT, LONGGUA
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI SURCOAT, LONGGUA QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820) PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN Made for an Empress or first-level consort, the front-opening longgua is woven on the shoulders with the hare stirring the elixir of life and the three-legged cockerel, two of the Twelve Symbols of Imperial Authority. The front and back are woven with symmetrically arranged dragon roundels, each with side-facing dragons clutching flaming pearls amidst bats suspending wan emblems beneath S hou characters, all above auspicious objects issuing from the lishui stripe and terrestrial diagram at the hem, and against a midnight-blue ground with yellow silk lining. 72 in. (183 cm.) wide
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI SURCOAT, LONGGUA
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL KESI SURCOAT, LONGGUA QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820) PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN Made for an Empress or first-level consort, the front-opening longgua is woven on the shoulders with the hare stirring the elixir of life and the three-legged cockerel, two of the Twelve Symbols of Imperial Authority. The front and back are woven with symmetrically arranged dragon roundels, each with side-facing dragons clutching flaming pearls amidst bats suspending wan emblems beneath S hou characters, all above auspicious objects issuing from the lishui stripe and terrestrial diagram at the hem, and against a midnight-blue ground with yellow silk lining. 72 in. (183 cm.) wide
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