RARE DRAGON ROBE FROM EMBROIDERED PURPLE SILK SATIN FOR A GENTLEMAN

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3.000 € - 5.000 €

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Description:

China, Qing dynasty, late 19th ct.
L. 142 cm, B. 123 cm
Vivid purple satin silk from good quality embroidered with colored silk and darkened silvery metallic threads. Bordered by a fabric with metal threads with flowers on ice pattern. Five gilt brass spherical buttons. Nine (one on the understep) five-clawed dragons among clouds and red bats carrying swastika in their mouths. Cranes and Shou medallions suggest that this robe was made for a birthday. In the waves, along with numerous treasures, are dragon heads , each spitting out a tray of offerings on a cloud. Embroidery and materials are of amazingly high quality and suggest that this robe was made for a person of the highest social standings.
From an old north German private collection, acquired before 2000 - Cf.: Purple dragonrobe, Museum of New Zealand, inv. Nr. FE001939. Purple dragonrobe, H. Heroldova: The Dragon Robe as a Professional Dress of the Qing Dynasty Scholar-Official (The Naprstek Museum Collection), Prague, 2016, p. 64.
Slight traces of use, a few loose embroidery threads, sleeve extensions and cuffs missing

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