MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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AN EMBROIDERED SILK DRAGON PANEL
MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The rectangular panel worked in high relief, depicting a striding five-clawed dragon balancing a wheel and a flaming pearl on its outstretched foreleg, within borders of Buddhist and Daoist emblems, picked out in bright colored threads of gold, red, yellow, green, white and brown against an indigo-blue velvet ground
22½ x 15½ in. (57.1 x 39.5 cm.), framed and glazed

Lot Essay

Compare the two similar panels depicting upright dragons embroidered on green velvet in the exhibition, Chinese Textiles, Spink & Son Ltd., 5 - 23 December 1994, pp. 38-39, nos. 34 and 35. See, also, a pair of panels, probably once part of a robe, exhibited in The Art of Textiles, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 6 - 20 December 1989, p. 33, pl. 34.

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