19th-century Qing court robe

The 19th-century, blue silk gauze robe is embroidered in silk and couched gilded thread with nine five-clawed mang dragons surrounded by bats, clouds, and Buddhist emblems. The diagonal stripes representing water support a narrow band of wave lishui carrying the Eight Treasures, placed between the rocks. The colour and the design were for imperial princes of the first and second rank, or officials of lower rank.