拍品专文
Compare a similar dark blue embroidered surcoat illustrated by John E. Vollmer, "Costume as Symbol in Traditional China", Arts of Asia, September - October 1978, p. 52
MID-19TH CENTURY
细节
A RARE HEIR APPARENT KESI BLUE-GROUND SURCOAT, GUN FU
Mid-19th Century
Finely woven in gold and multi-colored threads on the front, back and shoulders with four roundels of five-clawed dragons hovering above a flaming pearl and overlapping waves reserved on a dense ground of clouds superimposed with bats and a single shou character above the dragon's head, the two roundels at the shoulders incorporating two of the twelve imperial symbols, the sun (cockerel) and the moon (hare stirring the elixir of life), all reserved on a dark blue ground
46in. (117.5cm.) long
Mid-19th Century
Finely woven in gold and multi-colored threads on the front, back and shoulders with four roundels of five-clawed dragons hovering above a flaming pearl and overlapping waves reserved on a dense ground of clouds superimposed with bats and a single shou character above the dragon's head, the two roundels at the shoulders incorporating two of the twelve imperial symbols, the sun (cockerel) and the moon (hare stirring the elixir of life), all reserved on a dark blue ground
46in. (117.5cm.) long