Lot Essay
For another rank badge see Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983), pl. C-30.
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CHOSON PERIOD (CIRCA 1900)
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An Embroidered Silk Rank Badge (Hyungbae)
Choson period (circa 1900)
For a civil official of the fourth rank and below, embroidered in polychrome silk on a navy blue silk ground with a single crane flying with a stalk of pulloch'o sacred fungus in its beak amongst multicolored clouds above clouds and cresting waves
9¾ x 8¾in. (25.9 x 22.3cm.) sight, framed and glazed
Choson period (circa 1900)
For a civil official of the fourth rank and below, embroidered in polychrome silk on a navy blue silk ground with a single crane flying with a stalk of pulloch'o sacred fungus in its beak amongst multicolored clouds above clouds and cresting waves
9¾ x 8¾in. (25.9 x 22.3cm.) sight, framed and glazed