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Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-16644, described as Robe, padded. Purple silk damask with vases and roundel design. Long, with slits at the sides. Narrow sleeves. Side closure with metal zipper at hip and front flap over the chest with side closure fastened with metal snaps and cloth toggle buttons and loops at neck and Mandarin style collar. Lined with purple silk in plain weave. All edges are finished with purple silk piping. 128cm x 144cm across sleeves.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-5631, described as Robe; green silk background tapestry; multicolor flowers [word]; red damask lining unfinished
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-5451, described as Robe; silk, gilt paper; plain weave; embroidered; blue ground, varicolored dragon, other designs. Length: 53.25 inches, Sleeves: 26.5 inches
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-13558, described as Robe. Long tapering sleeves. Center front opening skirt; neckband and apron have tie closing on right side. Neckband is black silk satin. Upper body and sleeves are pieced from curving stripes of light blue and dark brown silk damask, and have deteriorated along shoulder creases. White, blue, and gold deteriorating couched lines on neckband on upper body. Sleeve edges are black silk satin with deteriorating gold brocade. Waist band is green silk satin with center front interlaced satin knot and two hanging tapes. Triangular tapestry aprons in front and back, each with fullface 4 clawed dragon, sacred jewel, sea, clouds in blues and greens on a red ground. Brocade and velvet borders, with one small blue glass ornament on front apron and 2 and a half on back (18 on each originally). Outer edge is white silk satin, painted in green, red, and purple with a dragon face and clouds, all padded with wool. Lower body is all tapestry. Two triangular areas under aprons have cloudlike, multicolored horizontal stripes. Rest of skirt has vertical curving stripes with alternating gold and red grounds. Multicolored leaf and vine pattern in stripes becomes swirls at lower scalloped edge. Black braid couched between each stripe. Pink silk satin lining, deteriorating at neck and front apron. Chinese writing on lining in three places. Deterioration of lower back tapestry edge shows an inner layer of coarse white plain weave wool. Lower skirt and aprons may be from a very old dragon robe, with upper body and padded painting added later. Tapestry areas are Ming designs. Finely woven tapestry, and a very unusual robe, Peking Opera costume, Imperial patronage; Kossu skirt is 17th century, remainder is 18th century (fide John Vollmer of the Royal Ontario Museum, June 1979).
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-16325, described as Robe, blue silk damask lined in green silk. Band, embroidered in blue and white floral pattern, runs along sides, around neck and sleeves. White satin sleeve borders embroidered in butterfly and floral patterns. 5 frog right side closure. Length 36 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-17967, described as Robe: dark blue silk patterned w/ yellow silk embroidery in usual cosmological symbols (dragon, mountains & waters, clouds, bats, etc. some Buddhist symbols) open at sides; sleeve cuffs, neck trim & body trim all match; horsehoof sleeve black silk mesh, neck trimmed w/ woven braid & trim metallic braid; loop & toggle closure. Man's tunic (summer court wear); relatively rare; c. 1800s. 138.8 cm L.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-17968, described as Robe: man's "scholar" type in ultramarine blue damask silk satin w/ overall patterning of stylized chrysanthemum roundells; modified Manchu closure, cloth buttons & toggles, handsewn; lined w/ teal blue plainwoven silk; side slits. Probably made for export; c. 1945 fide Mary Hays. 148.6 cm L.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-5459, described as Robe; silk, gilt paper; K’OSSU tapestry weave; plain weave lining; gold ground, varicolored dragon, other designs, blue lining 56 1/2 inches long. 29 inch sleeves.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-5457, described as Robe; silk, gilt paper; satin weave, embroidered; damask lining; red ground; varicolored dragons, other designs; natural to red lining; 46 inches long, 24 inch sleeves.
Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-13560, described as Dragon robe. Long tapering sleeves. Overlapping front with 5 loops and metal buttons on right side. Slit ⅓ up front and back. Magenta silk plain weave ground with multicolor brocade and embroidery. Right front (concealed when worn) is plain with one dragon. Main body has wide lower band of embroidered straight waves. Brocaded patterns above - 3 dragons on front, one on each shoulder, 3 on the back. Also mountains, clouds, birds, fish, bats, and other lucky symbols. The main body has been shortened around the middle by 4 inches. Neckband of black silk plain weave ground, with 5 brocade dragons, waves, clouds, bats. Edging of old black silk and flat strap gold brocade. Sleeves have embroidered sea and waves at shoulders, then plain black area with groups of woven stripes. “Horsehoof” cuff brocaded with dragons, waves, clouds. Old edging as on neck. Dragons all have 5 claws and are gold. No lining, and lower edge had come unhemmed.

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