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A RARE EMBROIDERED ORANGE-GROUND SILK ‘DRAGON’ PANEL
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The panel is fnely embroidered with a ferocious front-facing fve-clawed dragon chasing a faming pearl,
the scales of the dragon are fnely delineated, all amidst ruyi-form clouds on an orange tabby ground
with wefts of varying sizes, and worked in shades of blue, orange, pink, green and ochre.
40 x 35æ in. (101.6 x 90.8 cm.)

$20,000-30,000

The angled seams at the top of this panel indicate that this may have once been the upper portion
of a monumental banner.
明萬曆 赭紗刺繡雲龍戲珠紋屏

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