A CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK `DRAGON` PANEL Ming Dynasty Finely worked with colourful threads with a ferocious-looking beast reaching out to grab the sacred pearl of wisdom, all on a black silk ground, backed on cardboard, 37.3cm high, 35cm long A closely related dragon badge worked on a yellow ground, dated mid sixteenth century, is illustrated in Heaven`s Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles , the Urban Council of Hong Kong in association with the Liaoning Provincial Museum, Hong Kong, p. 275, no. 90. 明 刺繡 龍紋補子