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A rare Chinese silk robe for Empress Dowager Cixi, Qing Dynasty…
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Sydney
Date:
31-Aug-2017
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A rare Chinese silk robe for Empress Dowager Cixi, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), early Guangxu period (1875-1908), the very beautiful robe embroidered on a chestnut silk with peonies in green, lilac and ice blue, decorated with auspicious emblems for good fortune and longevity, and exquisitely edged with golden thread. A rare pleated hem, indicates an Imperial winter robe, presented in a perspex case measuring 227 cm wide, 20 cm deep, 149 cm high. Provenance: Purchased Linda Wrigglesworth, Sydney, November 1999, Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, 7-9 November, 1998. Other Notes: for a very similar robe, please see the late Qing dynasty robe, gifted by Captain and Mrs. James Thach, 1946 to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and another robe for the Empress Dowager in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and illustrated in Mary Tregear's, Chinese Art, no.156, p193.
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Category:
Oriental: Textiles & Costume