A Chinese Daoist Priest's robe of the highest order, Qing dynasty, 19th century, the central panel depicting the pagoda and the celestial symbols and Daoist emblems, with white cranes, clouds interspersed with five four-clawed dragons above a lishui border, the lower hem of dark blue silk depicting the eight trigrams in gold thread, the clouds and cranes overflow to the front of the panel with the hem line with two phoenix, dark blue border with gold thread shou symbols, original cotton lining, 138cm hem to collar x 175cm wide Provenance: By Family descentMme Marie Violet who was a private collector circa 1890-1915清 珊瑚紅地繡龍紋絳衣拍品來源：瑪麗·維奧萊特 (Marie Violet) 女士家族傳承，入藏於1890 年至 1915 年間

some loss to the gold thread clouds and unfinished neck band and edgesfront with some fading when compared to the back but overall good colours