The Forbidden City – Objects From The Gilded Cage
The Forbidden City – Objects From The Gilded Cage
Article by Louise Marfleet
Recently, I visited the ‘Imperial Chinese Robes’ exhibition at the V&A in London and among the beautifully crafted hats, shoes, children’s clothes and patterned fabrics that were on display there, I came across an elaborate and exquisitely fashioned robe which I recalled seeing at the Palace Museum in Beijing several years earlier.
The robe – informal in its function, had belonged to the Empress Dowager Cixi and was worn when she was not fulfilling official duties (complex rules and conventions specifying which clothes should be worn on different court occasions were implicitly followed). Its form – illuminated in satin yellow, shimmered like evening sunlight, while beautifully embroidered butterfly’s and cranes revelled amongst the elaborate fauna of the garments folds.
Once the exclusive dominion of the Empress Dowager the intense yellow of this outfit has undergone a democratic transformation
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