Lot Essay
For another rank badge see Beth McKillop, Korean Art and Design: The Samsung Gallery of Korean Art, exh. cat. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992), cover illustr.
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CHOSON PERIOD (CIRCA 1900)
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Two Embroidered-Silk Civil Rank Badges (Hyungbae)
Choson Period (circa 1900)
For a civil official of the first, second and third ranks, each square, with two confronted cranes holding in their beaks a branch of pulloch'o fungus surrounded by colored clouds and above rainbow-colored waves and a svastika medallion, the ground blue figured silk
7.1/8 x 6.3/8in. (18.2 x 16.3cm.) each approx. (2)
Choson Period (circa 1900)
For a civil official of the first, second and third ranks, each square, with two confronted cranes holding in their beaks a branch of pulloch'o fungus surrounded by colored clouds and above rainbow-colored waves and a svastika medallion, the ground blue figured silk
7.1/8 x 6.3/8in. (18.2 x 16.3cm.) each approx. (2)