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A Pink Silk Manchu Woman's Informal Robe, Changyi, Late Qing…
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Melbourne
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27-Oct-2009
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A Pink Silk Manchu Woman's Informal Robe, Changyi, Late Qing Dynasty embroidered in satin stitch with brightly coloured butterflies hovering over scattered orchid sprays, enclosed by a black silk border similarly worked with pairs of orchid plants alternating with butterflies, the sleeves with white ground bands en suite 139 cm long by 115 cm wide. Catalogue Note Compare with a green kesi robe, 19th century, of similar style illustrated by Julie Segraves Qing Dynasty Costumes from the Denver Art Museum, Fig. 8. p. 128, Chinese and Central Asian Textiles, Orientations 1983-1997. The butterfly (die) is a homonym for a septuagenarian or octogenarian and therefore a symbol of long life, the orchid is one of the 'Four Gentlemen of Flowers' the others being chrysanthemum, lotus and bamboo
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