AN EMBROIDERED 'MIDNIGHT BLUE' SILK FORMAL COURT ROBE, CHAOF...

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Lot 1618 | AN EMBROIDERED 'MIDNIGHT BLUE' SILK FORMAL COURT ROBE, CHAOF...
AN EMBROIDERED 'MIDNIGHT BLUE' SILK FORMAL COURT ROBE, CHAOFU

19TH CENTURY

The robe is worked in couched gold thread and multi-colored satin stitch on the upper half with four five-clawed dragons amidst clouds and Buddhist emblems, all above the terrestrial diagram at the waist, the attached pleated, flared apron similarly worked and joined by a narrow waistband decorated with confronted dragons.

55 ¾ in. (141.6 cm.) long x 77 in. (195.5 cm.) wide

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