The robe finely worked in couched gold thread and counted stitch with the prescribed nine five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst a dense blue ground interspersed with cranes, bats and the Attributes of the Eight Immortals, all above a terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe separated by further clouds and rolling waves outlined in gold thread, with a similar decoration repeated on the border, collar and cuff. Period: 19th/20th century. Length: 135 cm.