Lot 128
  • 128

Robe à décor des neuf dragons en soie tissée, kesi Dynastie Qing, XVIIIE/XIXE siècle

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 EUR
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Description

  • Silk
finement tissée en fils dorés de neuf dragons à cinq griffes à la poursuite de la perle enflammée, parmi des nuages stylisés où voltigent des chauves-souris dont certaines tiennent des trésors auspicieux dans la gueule, sur fond bleu de cobalt, au-dessus de symboles auspicieux émergeant de vagues mouvementées et d'une bordure lishui

Condition

The nine-dragon robe is padded and the inside is covered with a pale blue silk. The textile is in overall good condition. It is padded with a thin cotton wool layer between the exterior kesi textile and the interior blue silk lining. There is overall light traces of wear to the textile, particularly to the border around and along the collar, the upper parts of both sleeves, the cuffs and the rainbow border at the bottong of the robe. In all these areas small parts of the kesi have become detached from the overall design, some of them are loose. The applied borders around and along the neck and cuffs are frayed. There are minor tears where the textile has been joined at the top of the back and front splits.The blue lining is slightly stained inside the cuffs. The colours are fresh.
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