Lot 201

In good condition with slight discolouration in a vertcal line near each fcuff consistent with long-term storage, some slight puckering to chesnut silk to mid-lower sections as visible in photographs, very minor stains to silk and loose threads consistent with age, the saturation of lilac slightly faded in comparison to interior panel (pictured), gold thread and emboridery in very good condition, Conservation Treatment, May-July, 2000


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Purchased: Linda Wrigglesworth, Sydney, November 1999; Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, 7-9 November, 1998

Peter Fish, 'Appreciation', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 27 September, 1999;
Highlife Magazine, February 2000, Vol. 4, No. 3, B. Connor, pp126-7

For a very similar robe, please see the late Qing dynasty robe, gifted by Captain and Mrs. James Thach, 1946 to the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and another robe for the Empress Dowager in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and illustrated in Mary Tregear's, Chinese Art, No.156, p193.