Chinese Kesi Badge
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Early 19th century, finely woven with a gold front-facing five-clawed dragon with its body coiled around a 'flaming pearl' as it leaps amidst ruyi-shaped clouds interspersed with the gold scrolling foliage and lotus, above billowing waves, above the dragons head is a jade-rabbit with landscape in a yellow disk, one of the twelve symbols of Imperial authority, all woven in fine gold and multicoloured threads on a black silk ground encircled by Ruyi cloud, framed with another smaller embroidery front-facing gold dragon, 12" dia. Provenance: Private textile collection of a lady, Greenwich CT
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Chinese Kesi Badge
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
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