File:Kesi roundel with five-clawed dragon design.jpg

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current13:11, 6 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 13:11, 6 May 20201,000 × 1,001 (519 KB)commons>Tillman{{Information |description ={{en|1=Kesi roundel with five-clawed dragon design, China, late 17th century. Silk, metallic thread and peacock feather slit-tapestry weave, 0.30 x 0.31 m (11¾” x 12½”). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 36.65.32 Native to the Indian subcontinent, the peacock (Pavo cristatus) has long been prized in South Asia and further afield for its brilliant blue-green colouring and showy ocelli tail feathers—around 200 of which make up a mature bird’s tr...

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