Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Chanterelles acrylic rhinestone

acrylic rhinestone

The embroidery is chenille

the dress was featured in the February 1929 issue of ‘Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des Arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme’

and have little glass bead eyes

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 45

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Chanterelles acrylic rhinestoneThis 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