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Two rare deep blue silk brocade dragon robe fragments 17th century image 1
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Two rare deep blue silk brocade dragon robe fragments
17th century

Fine Chinese Works of Art
16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San Francisco

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Two rare deep blue silk brocade dragon robe fragments

17th century
Each square-sectioned fragment with a vertical seam line to the center woven in gilt and shades of red, green, blue and white with a vigorous four-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming jewel, surrounded by cloud scrolls above terrestrial peaks and turbulent waves.
19 1/2 x 25in and 20 x 22in
(49.5 x 63.5cm and 50.8 x 55.8cm)

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The large-sized dragons with uprising manes and exaggerated projecting snout are peculiar to the Ming dynasty. The present fragments appear to be from the upper sections of the dragon robes from the 17th century. Compare a dark blue ground brocade and damask dragon robe, dated 17th century, illustrated in the exhibition catalog Heavens' Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, the Urban Council of Hong Kong in association with the Liaoning Provincial Museum, 1995, p. 209, no. 58.

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