10 mars 2014
A couched silk Daoist priest's robe (jiangyi), Qing Dynasty, late 19th century
A couched silk Daoist priest's robe (jiangyi), Qing Dynasty, late 19th century. Photo Sotheby's worked in gold-wrapped threads with some knotted stitches to form a depiction of the cosmos, with a three-storied tower enclosed within a flaming nimbus, flanked...