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Chinese Works of Art
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Property from a Southern California Museum
Textiles
Property from a Southern California Museum
Lot 8140
A Manchu nobleman's chestnut ground brocade-woven court robe, jifu Qianlong/Jiajing period
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$12,500 inc. premium
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A Manchu nobleman's chestnut ground brocade-woven court robe, jifu
Qianlong/Jiajing period
Woven in fine gilt-wrapped threads with four front-facing dragons at top front, shoulders and back while four side-facing dragons appear below, all chasing flaming pearls amid clouds and bats flying above the lishui border, the subsidiary motifs woven in white, shades of blue, green and orange, the existing neck bands, sleeves and cuffs added at a later date.
53in (134.6cm) long
Woven in fine gilt-wrapped threads with four front-facing dragons at top front, shoulders and back while four side-facing dragons appear below, all chasing flaming pearls amid clouds and bats flying above the lishui border, the subsidiary motifs woven in white, shades of blue, green and orange, the existing neck bands, sleeves and cuffs added at a later date.
53in (134.6cm) long
Footnotes
清乾隆或嘉慶 秋香緞織彩雲龍紋吉服
The brown background of the robe, known at qiuxiangse (tawny incense), was reserved for princes and other members of the imperial clan: see, for example, John Vollmer, Ruling from the Dragon Throne, 2002, pp. 83-84 and fig. 4.3, an embroidered example from the Daoguang period.














