A Blue Ground Silk Gauze Summer 'Dragon' Robe, Jifu
19TH CENTURY
清晚期 藍地納紗盤龍吉服
embroidered with gilt threads to the woven blue ground to show a total of nine forward facing and confronting writhing dragons above a lishui stripe at the hem and arms, bordered with a terrestrial diagram and foaming waves, all interspersed with polychrome beribboned auspicious symbols and dense vaporous cloud scrolls. The collar band and horseshoe cuffs with similar decoration, all mounted within a frame.
Frame size 66 1/2 x 70 1/2 in., 168.9 x 179.1 cm.