Den blå rocken i gasväv är broderad med de klassiska nio femkloade drakarna som jagar den flammande pärlan. Två avbildade med ansiktet rakt framåt, de andra från sidan, den nionde finner man som brukligt är bakom draperingen. Drakarna slingrar sig bland lingzhi-formade moln, fladdermöss, dyrbara ting samt tranor allt mot en mörkt blå grund ovan vilda vågor och de klassiska lishuiränderna nedtill. Dekoren upprepas på kragen och ärmsluten. Längd rygg 130, bredd arm till arm ca 200 cm.
Slitage. Lösa trådar.
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.