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19th century
Finely embroidered in polychrome silk threads and couched gilt thread, the skirt decorated with alternating dragon roundels and striding five-clawed dragons amidst multicolored cloud scrolls, above the cresting lishui band, the upper register embroidered with a continuous band of confronting dragons pursuing flaming pearls, the borders with patterned woven silk bands.
119 1/2 × 39 1/8in (303.5 × 99.4cm)
Footnotes
十九世紀 石青地納紗繡趕珠龍紋朝裙
The chao qun (朝裙), or Court Skirt, formed the lower half of the Qing chao pao (Court Dress) ensemble. This two-part construction was probably a feature inherited from Ming court dress. On the left side, at the seam between the lower and upper sections of the robe, there was a small square flap called a ren. The ren is not a pocket and apparently served no specific purpose. In her book Chinese Dress, Verity Wilson states that the ren may originally have been a scabbard slide.
Compare a related Manchu man's formal court skirt illustrated in Robert D. Jacobsen, , Vol. I, Minneapolis, 2000, pp. 620–621. See also a comparable example published in Yulai Li and Yufang Li, , Shanghai, 2005, p. 137, pl. yz019.