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23 janvier 2012

A rare yellow silk brocade ceremonial robe, 18th century

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A rare yellow silk brocade ceremonial robe, 18th century.  Photo Bonhams

Constructed in multiple pieces with a brocade design of dragon roundels and cloud scrolls on the yellow ground surrounding a quadrilobed reserve woven on a flat satin ground of a front-facing dragon to the front, each shoulder and back woven in gilt wrapped threads surrounded by clouds and a lishui border with auspicious emblems woven in subdued polychrome threads that repeat as a horizontal border along the lower hem and continue across the top fold of each billowing sleeve; an applied strip on the interior of the front flap identifying the robe as Yin Meng Niang Niang shen pao. 58in (147.5cm) long; 106in (269cm) width across shoulders. Sold for US$25,000

Note: The label affixed to the inside seam of this garment identifies Yin Meng Niang Niang, one of the female fertility deities in the retinue of Bi Xia Yuan Jun. The deity, popular in northeastern China from the late Ming period onward, was deemed responsible for the general well-being of a young child's physical and mental growth.

A Kangxi period chaopao from the Palace Museum collection exhibited in "China: The Three Emperors" at the Royal academy in London is constructed of a similarly patterned silk. Each shares the same pattern in damask weave of small dragon roundels and a cloud motif in the areas outside the lobed polychrome brocade dragon pattern centered around the neck opening of the costumes. See Evelyn Sakakida Rawski and Jessica Rawson. China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005. p. 71

BonhamsFine Asian Works of Art, 20 Dec 2011. California, San Francisco www.bonhams.com

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