En blå sommar rock, Qing dynastin, omkring 1900.
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Den mörkt blå gasväven broderad med guld tråd med nio femkloade drakar som jagar den flammande pärlan bland molnformationer, tranor och symboler. Dekoren upprepar sig längs krage och slag. Ärmen med svart gasväv broderad med blå linjer. Längd rygg 134 cm. Längd arm till arm 210 cm.
Slitage.
Proveniens
Purchased at Christies 24 November 1998. Lot no 36.
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 2, a part of the textile collection.
Litteratur
C Hall, Power Dressing, Textiles for Rulers and Priests from the Chris Hall Collection, Asian Civilizations Museum, 2006. The author writes that blue was the colour used on dragon robes worn by the third and fourth degree princes, nobles down to the eleventh degree, and officials.
The bright gold couching and the counted stich embroidery against the textured gauze ground provide a striking contrast.