An embroidered blue-ground silk gauze summer dragon robe19th century
Embroidered with couched gilt threads and polychrome silk threads, displaying the nine dragons set amid ruyi-clouds surrounding crane roundels, auspicious bats, and Daoist emblems, all above mountain peaks rising from crashing wave and a tall lishui border, the black gauze neck bands and cuffs embroidered en suite (wear, fading, loose threads).
51 1/2in (130.8cm) long