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Lot 66
Sale 6088 - Asian Arts
Oct 14, 2021
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$8,190
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
An unusual Chinese embroidered gauze woman's vest, Xiapei 刺绣女士马甲霞帔 Third quarter 19th century ???????
Of midnight blue gauze lined with salmon silk, embroidered in counted stitch and couched gold thread with a pair of opposing five-clawed dragons grasping flaming jewels, the verso with a similar front-facing dragon, all among clouds, bats, shou symbols and a variety of birds, and above crashing waves and rockwork with auspicious symbols and treasures, peony scroll border, all above a green knotted netting and tassel border of varying colors punctuated with metal beads; the vest applied with two rank badges depicting sixth civil rank egrets in couched gold thread on grey-blue gauze, below a "cloud-collar" punctuated by peony sprays.
L: 46 in.