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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