A BLUE-GROUND COUCHED 'NINE-DRAGONS' GOLD ROBE, JIFUCirca 1870
The robe finely worked in couched gold threads with nine writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst clusters of vaporous ruyi clouds interspersed with bats and the Eight Buddhist Emblems, all reserved on a blue ground above Auspicious Emblems rising from the terrestrial diagram and a lishui stripe at the hem, with midnight-blue cuffs and collar decorated with further dragons and clouds.
203cm (79 7/8in) long.Footnotes約1870年 藍地緞繡九龍紋吉服袍
Provenance: Teresa Coleman, Hong Kong, 7 July 2022
A distinguished Hong Kong private collection
來源：Teresa Coleman，香港，2022年7月7日
香港顯赫私人收藏
The gold thread employed for decorating this remarkable robe was made by beating high carat gold into gold leaf and pasting it on to a paper support with lac from a lacquer tree. The gilt material would then be burnished and cut into fine strips before being wrapped around a silk thread core. The gold threads would then be couched down on top of the silk to form the dragons.
Compare with a similar blue-ground gold couched 'dragon' robe, late 19th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 5 November 2020, lot 112; another example was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 May 2019, lot 496.
A BLUE-GROUND COUCHED 'NINE-DRAGONS' GOLD ROBE, JIFUCirca 1870
The robe finely worked in couched gold threads with nine writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst clusters of vaporous ruyi clouds interspersed with bats and the Eight Buddhist Emblems, all reserved on a blue ground above Auspicious Emblems rising from the terrestrial diagram and a lishui stripe at the hem, with midnight-blue cuffs and collar decorated with further dragons and clouds.
203cm (79 7/8in) long.Footnotes約1870年 藍地緞繡九龍紋吉服袍
Provenance: Teresa Coleman, Hong Kong, 7 July 2022
A distinguished Hong Kong private collection
來源：Teresa Coleman，香港，2022年7月7日
香港顯赫私人收藏
The gold thread employed for decorating this remarkable robe was made by beating high carat gold into gold leaf and pasting it on to a paper support with lac from a lacquer tree. The gilt material would then be burnished and cut into fine strips before being wrapped around a silk thread core. The gold threads would then be couched down on top of the silk to form the dragons.
Compare with a similar blue-ground gold couched 'dragon' robe, late 19th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 5 November 2020, lot 112; another example was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 May 2019, lot 496.
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