A Dark Navy Blue Ground Cut Velvet Silk Lady's Robe
19TH CENTURY
清中期 藍緞地剪絨牡丹紋女袍
the ground of deep velvet worked in the form of bats and butterflies soaring amidst floral sprays cut to a blue satin, and bordered at the collar and side ruyi vents with delicately embroidered cream ground ribbons showing various scholar's objects and auspicious symbols in various fruit, fan, and book-form reserves and interspersed with a dense scroll of gilt metallic threads. The center and cuffs with a similar cream-ground ribbons worked with deer and peacocks between scrolling fretwork. Finished with central knot toggles and lined in blue.
Length from collar to hem 40 1/2 in. x width across chest 24 in., 103 x 61 cm.
