Robe, silk, Chinese style robe. navy blue ground, 3 roundels on each side plus 1 roundel on each shoulder. roundels decorated with 5-toed dragons below which are land and water motifs and surrounded by bats, clouds, and flaming jewels. broad hem decorated with land water and cloud motifs above which is a peach tree at center front and back and at each side, plus peonies and bats. overlap is brocaded fabric with peonies, bats and other floral decoration. lined with blue silk fabric; closed at neck with loop on gold ball button.
Donor:
Estate of G. Eleanore Murray, Estate of Theos C. Bernard, and Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Culture or time period:
Tibetan
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons and Robes (main garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
19th-20th century
Accession date:
March 12, 2004
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
border— height 40 centimeters, sleeve hem to sleeve hem— length 217.5 centimeters, and roundels— diameter 29 centimeters