RARE IMPERIAL APRICOT-YELLOW EMBROIDERED TWELVE-SYMBOL 'DRAGON' ROBE, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY, worked in satin stitch and gold threads with five-clawed contorted dragons writhing amidst lingzhi-form clouds interspersed with shou medallions and the twelve symbols of Imperial authority, all above the terrestrial diagram, turbulent waves and the lishui stripe at the hem Provenance: Athelhampton House, Dorset.