Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag Tiny lozenges accent the couching

Tiny lozenges accent the couching and the sleeves

the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

The embroidery is chenille

The original dress is held by the Kyoto Costume Institute (accession AC9206 95-7)

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag Tiny lozenges accent the couchingThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has