A silk 'kesi' section of a dragon robe Ming dynasty

woven with small circular dragon roundels on a ground of stylized clouds, the large central foliate panel depicting a dragon amongst clouds with crested waves

Compare a very similar section of a sleeve in the Spinks exhibition, Threads of Imagination: Central Asian and Chinese Silks from the 12th to the 19th Century, 1999, cat. no. 18.