Fine Embroidered Gauze Woman's Vest, Xiapei
Third quarter 19th Century
Made of fine midnight-blue silk guaze embroidered in fold-srapped thread and counted stitch with a 'cloud collar', a pair of five-clawed profile dragons clutching flaming pearls on the front and a front-facing dragon on the back, all amidst pairs of various birds, clouds and shou characters above a band of wind-tossed waves and a peony scroll border, all surrounding applied rank badges similarly worked on fine flack gau

Dimension: 46" (117cm) long.

PROVENANCE: Property of a private collector from Georgia.
Linda Wrigglesworth, London, acquired from the above, 1988; Sold Christie's, New York, March 8, 2008, "The Imperial Wardrobe: Fine Chinese Costume and Textiles from the Linda Wrigglesworth Collection", lot 15.
The Jeffrey M. Kaplan Collection, acquired from the above.

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