An Apricot Ground Embroidered Silk Lady’s Informal Robe

19TH CENTURY

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of wide short section, the apricot ground of plain weave finely embroidered utilizing gilt-wrapped threads as a background of toothed hatches against large dragon roundels worked with couched scales and details, including ruyi cloud borders in polychrome floss surrounded by a multitude of spirited boys and outlined double-gourds worked to each edge in a palette of blues with truncated flower petals; all above a terrestrial diagram and wide gilt stripe reserving zodiac roundels. Lined in blue silk and finished with black ground edging at the side closure and before the cream cuffs decorated with dense floral scrolls.

Length 48 1/2 x width 41 1/2., 123.2 x 105.4 cm.

The overall structural integrity sound, with loosening threads largely limited to the couching on the trim at the cuffs and collar. Exterior fading and discoloration most noticeable at the creased and soiled shoulder line. The lining with some minor tears alongside color loss.

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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.

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An Apricot Ground Embroidered Silk Lady’s Informal Robe

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