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A woman's blue ground brocade silk informal overcoat, waitao
Late 19th century
Woven with fine gilt-wrapped threads forming the design of One Hundred Children at Play across the front and back of the center-opening robe finished with a short collar.
44 1/2in (113cm) long
Woven with fine gilt-wrapped threads forming the design of One Hundred Children at Play across the front and back of the center-opening robe finished with a short collar.
44 1/2in (113cm) long
Sold for
US$ 3,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- For a similarly patterned coat woven in gilt threads on a black ground, see Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2000), volume I, cat. no. 223, pp. 528-9.
Category: Asian Art
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