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Lot 1299

Sale 986 - Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art
Mar 29, 2022 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$800 - 1,200
Price Realized
$9,375
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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A Blue Ground Embroidered Silk Dragon Robe, Jifu
19TH CENTURY

清晚期 藍緞地龍紋吉福
worked to the front, back, and interior flap with five-clawed dragons detailed with of couched metallic gilt-wrapped threads, in pursuit of a polychrome floss embroidered flaming pearl, and interspersed with the beribboned auspicious emblems amidst vaporous clouds wisps; all above a terrestrial diagram with foaming waves above a five-color lishui stripe at the hem, the collar and horseshoe cuffs worked with further dragons against a deeper ground, the sleeve extensions of plain maroon silk. 
Length from collar to hem 51 x width across chest 25 1/2 in.,129.5 x 64.8 cm.

Property Sold to Benefit a Nonprofit Cultural Organization

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