Antique Chinese nobility badge 5 toe dragon silk and metal embroidery robe round
Antique Chinese nobility badge from a surcoat, China, mid 19thC Qing Dynasty, front facing 5 claw dragons on a roundel, were called dragon of heaven, and reserved for the highest ranking members of the Imperial family, 1st rank princes or son’s of the emperor, hand woven embroidery, very fine silk petit point on blue-black gauze,