Lot 1278

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Description:

A Chinese ladies informal silk robe
Qing Dynasty, mid-19th century, the pale gold satin decorated with butterflies, gourds and floral roundels, the embroidered borders with flowers and butterflies in three blues (sanlan) on a black ground with black ribbon edging and conforming inner ribbon border, the cuffs with similar sanlan borders on a gold ground, but the butterflies 9embroidered in polychrome, the collar in purple, turquoise and pink, with gilt metal and green Peking glass buttons, length 40in. (101.5cm.) collar to hem, 50in. (127cm.) cuff to cuff.

*Condition: Colours good overall and in clean condition overall. Silk border unravelling just below collar centre front and some splits and holes to this border around the collar area. Similar splitting to black ground of the border at lower front and to lower back corners. There is an area to the gold satin to centre left of front which has a number of slightly darker lines running in various directions across the satin - this appears to be flaws in the stitching as they are not visible on the reverse. There are also two horizontal lines just below this which are again possible flaws or slight pulls in the weaving.

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July 2, 2020 10:00 AM BST
Guernsey, United Kingdom

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