Dragons Chasing the Sacred Pearl
A large silk embroidery, worked in relief in cotton tabby, padded floss silk, coloured couched and gold wrapped threads with three scaly coiled dragons amongst clouds, one clutching the sacred pearl, on a ground of couched spirals of twisted thread, within a damask border of gold mon on a geometric diaper ground.
Unsigned
Height 293cm, width 205.5cm
Meiji Period, circa 1890
£7,500
