A Large Kesi Woven Silk 'Dragon' PanelMING DYNASTY (1368-1644)明 杏地緙絲龍紋桌墊of rectangular section, densely woven with pale metallic, white, and details of red floss into the ground of warm apricot to dominate the vertical space with the serpentine coils of a large dragon's body boring through puffs of spiralized clouds, its gaze fixed upon a flaming pearl held aloft within its five-clawed foot and the whiplike firey wisps concentrating near a second, larger pearl in the sky; the rear feet stretching out below towards a narrow terrestrial diagram marked with rolling waves tossing amid daggerlike mountains and forking coral branches; the whole bordered with gold ground brocade and black trim. Height 60 x width 39 1/2 in., 152.4 x 100.33 cm.