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A KESI SILK ‘DRAGON’ FRAGMENT
Ming dynasty
The central section woven with a shaped panel enclosing a dragon,
superimposed against a band of clouds, bisecting a ground of
latticework clouds and dragon roundels, mounted.
42in (106.7cm) long
$4,000 - 6,000
明 緙絲龍紋袍料殘件
A panel with a similar design from the Ming dynasty is illustrated by
Spink & Son Ltd., Threads of Imagination, Central Asian and Chinese
Silks from the 12th to the 19th Century, London, 1999, no. 18, where
their textile is described as a sleeve fragment.
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