An embroidered blue silk ground dragon robe


19th centuryThe nine dragons worked in couched gilt threads with details added in the same hues of polychrome silk thread used for the surrounding clouds and auspicious emblems, mountains and scudding waves rising above a brilliantly striped border that repeats in smaller scale along the edge of each sleeve, the black silk neck bands and cuffs embroidered en suite. 57 1/4in (145.5cm) long
|ProvenanceReceipt labeled Beijing shi wenwu gushu xiaohuo fapiao, 1 April 1981