A LARGE APRICOT-GROUND KESI 'DRAGON' PANEL

17TH CENTURY

Details

A LARGE APRICOT-GROUND KESI 'DRAGON' PANEL
17TH CENTURY
The panel is boldly woven in peacock feather filaments, gilt and colourful threads with a front-facing four-clawed dragon coiled around a flaming pearl, amongst ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls above rocks and tumultuous waves and precious objects.
The panel, 27 ¾ in. high x 38 in. wide (70.5 x 96.5 cm.), mounted in a perspex frame

Provenance

Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013).

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Lot Essay

A similar 'dragon' panel with a gilt ground was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 11 November 2015, lot 610, and a further kesi dragon panel as a table frontal from the Collection of Jean-Pierre Dubosc (1903-1988), was sold at Christie's Paris, 9 June 2015, lot 18.

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