A Manchu military officer's silk and metal ceremonial armour. Late 19th century - image-1

Lot 182 Dα

A Manchu military officer's silk and metal ceremonial armour. Late 19th century

Auction 1072 - overview Cologne
10.06.2016, 10:00 - Asian Art - Highlights China, Tibet/Nepal
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 24.800 € (incl. premium)
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A Manchu military officer's silk and metal ceremonial armour. Late 19th century

A Manchu military officer's silk and metal partial suit of ceremonial armour (dingjia) including a jacket and a skirt of blue satin with gilt-metal studs and embroidered with dragon roundels and borders of silk velvet, the jacket with two shoulder guards attached with gilt-metal plates chased with dragons and three subsidiary flaps with black velvet edging. The skirt in two sections, the waist band of blue cotton. In addition a pair of wrist guards of partly gilded silver sheet. (4)
Length of the jacket 69.5 cm; length of the skirt 95.7 cm

Provenance

Old private collection, Austria

Literature

Compare: R. D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks, Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis 2000, Vol. 1, no. 136; a similar armour was sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 10./11.12.2010, lot 196