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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
Lot 334

A gold-embroidered blue silk 'nine dragon' robe
19th century

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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A gold-embroidered blue silk 'nine dragon' robe

19th century
The blue silk ground richly couched with gold-wrapped thread forming eight five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls, the larger dragons across the chest and back both front-facing and each above a pedestal supporting a dish of two peaches beneath a bat, all amid cloud scrolls interspersed with bats, fans and shou roundels and above a border of standing water and rockwork at the hem and cuffs, the interior flap with a ninth dragon clambering upwards pursuing a pearl on a plain blue ground. 136cm (53½in) high

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Provenance: an Italian private collection

十九世紀 藍地金線繡九龍紋龍袍

來源:意大利私人收藏

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