AN EMBROIDERED BLACK-GROUND SILK JACKET

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AN EMBROIDERED BLACK-GROUND SILK JACKET
LATE 19TH CENTURY

Applied with a cream brocade border enclosing stylized ruyi heads edged in pink, with pink cuffs embroidered with birds, flowers and 'auspicious' objects--32in. (81cm.) long; together with a pink silk paired apron, worked in gold and silver couched threads with flowers and berries reserved on a dark purple panel, with turquoise-embroidered flying ribbons extending over the vertical pleats--33 3/8in. (84.8cm.) long (2)

来源

Alene von Harringa (the skirt)

拍品专文

The husband of Alene von Harringa purchased the negatives for the famous photographs of Dowager Empress Cixi (1845-1908) and her lady-in-waiting, 'Princess' Der Ling, from Thaddeus C. White, then United States Vice Consul at Shanghai

A similar jacket is illustrated by John E. Vollmer, Decoding Dragons: Status Garments in Ch'ing Dynasty China, University of Oregon Musuem of Art, 1983, p. 72, pl. 28