A Chinese Navy Blue Ground Embroidered Silk Court Robe, Chaofu

19TH CENTURY

清中期藍緞地綉龍紋朝服
worked with couched gilt metallic threads and satin-stitched polychrome floss outlining writhing dragons amidst vaporous puffs of clouds interspersed with bats, all above a terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe, the schema scaled down to a similar pattern at the waist band, cuffs, and beneath repeated dragon roundels at the pleated skirt at the hem.

Length from collar to hem 52 1/2 in., 133.4 cm.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.