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Lot Essay
In Imperial Wardrobe, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, London 1990, p.116, authors Gary Dickinson and Linda Wrigglesworth write that only the highest-ranking ministers and officers of the imperial bodyguard could be honoured with the privilege of wearing a yellow riding jacket.
A related example is illustrated in Ruling from the Dragon Throne by John E. Vollmer, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2002, p.48.
Another similar example is illustrated in Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City edited by Ming Wilson with the Palace Museum, Beijing, V&A Publishing, 2010, p.116, fig.13, V&A: T.128-1966.
A related example is illustrated in Ruling from the Dragon Throne by John E. Vollmer, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2002, p.48.
Another similar example is illustrated in Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City edited by Ming Wilson with the Palace Museum, Beijing, V&A Publishing, 2010, p.116, fig.13, V&A: T.128-1966.