A Blue Ground Embroidered Silk Gauze Summer 'Dragon' Robe, Jifu

19TH CENTURY

清晚期藍地納紗盤金綉龍紋吉服
the finely woven blue gauze ground interwoven with a soft palette supporting dragons worked in coils of tightly couched metallic gilt-wrapped pale silk threads. The nine front facing and confronting dragons spread between the front, back and interior flab, each in control of a polychrome flaming pearl, all finely worked with the floss detailed the wild fangs, pointed claws, and sinuous spines; each interspersed with beribboned auspicious symbols, bajixiang amidst bats and ruyi-headed scrolling tufts of clouds, the cuffs and hem with a lishui stripe uplifting a terrestrial diagram complete with turbulent waves crashing with frothy ruyi-head foam about auspicious symbols, the collar band and horseshoe cuffs, worked with similar decoration to a chestnut brown ground, and finished with gilt buttons on silk ties.

Length from collar to hem 53 x width across chest 24 1/2 in., 134.6 x 62.3 cm.

In overall very good condition, with only minor color loss, and some loose threads at the collar, cuffs, and sleeves, alongside some creasing.

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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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A Blue Ground Embroidered Silk Gauze Summer 'Dragon' Robe, Jifu

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