LATE 18TH CENTURY

细节

A BROWN-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK DRAGON ROBE, JIFU
Late 18th century
Appropriate for the use of a prince or nobleman of the first rank, the robe worked in satin stitch and finely couched gold threads with nine contorted five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst ruyi-form clouds interspersed with bats, flowers, Daoist emblems, and pairs of blossoms and double gourds, and potted narcissus and ruyi worked in Peking knot, all above the terrestrial diagram with peach branches issuing from the turbulent, blossom-tossed waters above the lishui stripe at the hem, all against a rich, golden-brown ground with dark blue dragon borders at the collar and cuffs
56½in. (143.5cm.) long

来源

Linda Wrigglesworth, Ltd.

拍品专文

For a discussion of this color robe see the footnote to lot 70.
Compare a very similar brown-ground semi-formal court robe with Daoist symbols, created for an Imperial clansman circa 1775-1800, illustrated by J.E. Vollmer, Five Colors of the Universe: Symbolism in Clothes and Fabrics of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1922), Edmonton Art Gallery, 1981, pp. 44-5.