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Blue Satin Semi-Formal Robe Silk tapestry, 19th Century Qing Dynasty 56 x 82 in. Gift of Mrs. Jeanne D. Lissaur 1954: 52 Red bats and clouds are scattered across the robe in a rebus that means "vast happiness reaching heaven." If the characters of the first two words were replaced with characters that sound the same but have different meanings, the rebus would read "bats reaching the sky." |
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