AN IMPERIAL YELLOW-GROUND SILK EMBROIDERED CURTAIN WITH A PAIR OF MIGHTY RISING DRAGONS China, 19th ct. 300 x 129 cm Background: Vivid yellow damask silk woven with connected swastika and Shou medallions. Exceedingly fine and top quality embroidery from the imperial workshops with gold and silver threads for the dragon in appliqué technique and with colored silk in satin stitch. The large five-clawed dragon with flaming pearl between connected clouds, red bats, the Eight Buddhist Precious and Shou medallions. The symmetrically arranged dragons rise powerfully upward to the flaming pearls. They are surrounded by connected clouds, Buddhist treasures (umbrella, lidded vessel, snail horn, wheel of teaching, endless knot, canopy) and red bats. Important German aristocratic private collection, assembled in China prior to 1904 and owned by the family since then Minor traces of age