Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree harpy The piece is based on

The piece is based on a British dress and spencer jacket from ca

and the sheer black silk over the shoulders

The shimmering combination of subtle colours evokes the silk chine and silk voile of the original dress

or the exaggerated curves and nipped in waist of the Victorian era

and the most beautiful Thai kozo paper for silk satin top

Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree harpy The piece is based onThis 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