A blue ground summer gauze dragon robe, Jifu, Qing dynasty, circa 1900.
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The blue gauze is worked in couched gold thread and counted stitch with the prescribed nine five-clawed dragons, two on the front and back shown clutching flaming pearls while the others are shown reaching for the pearl, all amidst lingzhi-shaped clouds interspersed with 'precious objects' and bats. The whole is set above a terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe separated by further clouds, and with similar decoration repeated on the border, collar and cuffs. Height back 130 cm. Length arm to arm 200 cm.
Wear. Loose threads.
Provenance
Purchased at Christies London 17 November 1999, lot no 6.
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 2, a part of the textile collection.