A RARE IMPERIAL GOLD AND SILVER-EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND TWELVE SYMBOL 'DRAGON' ROBE , LONGPAO JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) The robe is worked entirely in couched gold and silver threads with nine writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst ruyi -form clouds interspersed with bats and the bajixiang . The Twelve Symbols of Imperial Authority are arranged in three groups of four: the sun, moon, constellation and mountain around the neck; the fu symbol, axe, paired dragons, and golden pheasant around the body; and the pair of libation cups, aquatic grass, grains of millet and flames, all reserved on a blue ground above auspicious emblems rising from the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hen; with midnight-blue cuffs and collar decorated with further dragons and clouds. 57 ½ in. (146 cm.) long Provenance Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 206.
A RARE IMPERIAL GOLD AND SILVER-EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND TWELVE SYMBOL 'DRAGON' ROBE , LONGPAO JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) The robe is worked entirely in couched gold and silver threads with nine writhing five-clawed dragons confronting flaming pearls amidst ruyi -form clouds interspersed with bats and the bajixiang . The Twelve Symbols of Imperial Authority are arranged in three groups of four: the sun, moon, constellation and mountain around the neck; the fu symbol, axe, paired dragons, and golden pheasant around the body; and the pair of libation cups, aquatic grass, grains of millet and flames, all reserved on a blue ground above auspicious emblems rising from the terrestrial diagram and lishui stripe at the hen; with midnight-blue cuffs and collar decorated with further dragons and clouds. 57 ½ in. (146 cm.) long Provenance Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 206.
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