a KESI-WOVEN SILK DRAGON ROBE


Late Qing dynastyIntricately woven in thin gilt-wrapped threads and multiple colors on a faded blue ground to depict nine dragons with embroidered eyes surrounded by clouds, bats and other auspicious emblems with some painted details set against a floral quatrefoil diaper pattern above a tall lishui border, the neck bands woven en suite on a black ground.53in (134.5cm) long
|ProvenancePurchased on October 25th, 1979 at the Shanghai Friendship Store, 33 Chungshan Road E. 1., Shanghai