An Embroidered Summer Gauze Court Robe, 19th/20th Century
Finely embroidered on a black gauze ground, with couched metallic gold thread and tones of purple, blue, green, rose and red, with a fierce dragon amidst five colour clouds, bats, cranes and auspicious symbols over the body, and a banded dragon border around the waist, the skirt with dragon roundels above a vividly embroidered dragon and flame border. Together with an embroidered cape
robe 48.6 x 76.3 in — 123.5 x 193.8 cm
December 04, 2017
Estimate $2,500-$2,800
Realised: $14,400
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Asian Art
Waddington’s Asian Art department is Canada’s leading specialist in the field, serving the evolving interests of the international Asian art market. The department offers expertise across a broad range of categories, including jades and hardstones, porcelains and ceramics, religious sculpture, bronzes, lacquer, textiles and court embroideries, classical and modern paintings, woodblock prints, export art, scholar’s objects, and small works of art such as snuff bottles and netsuke. We present works from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region, spanning antiquity to the modern era.
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