LATE 19TH CENTURY

细节

AN IMPERIAL APRICOT-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK TWELVE-SYMBOL ROBE, JIFU
Late 19th century
Worked in couched gold thread and satin stitch on the front and back with eight five-clawed dragons amidst dense stylized clouds interspersed with shou characters, auspicious bats, and the twelve imperial symbols above the terrestrial diagram with lishui stripe at the hem, all picked out in shades of blue, turquoise, red, ochre, and green, and reserved on an apricot ground, with a black-ground geometric border at the collar and cuffs
55in. (139.8cm.) long

来源

Sotheby's, New York, 22 February 1995, lot 517.

拍品专文

It is unusual to find a man's twelve-symbol robe with apricot-ground, the heir apparent color, made during a period when yellow ground was the standard. For a discussion of the significance of each of the twelve imperial symbols, see G. Dickinson and L. Wrigglesworth, Imperial Wardrobe, London, 1990, pp. 76-92.