拍品專文
A badge similar to the present lot is in the British Museum, illustrated by Rawson in The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, New York, 1992, p. 36, no. 14; and a pair was included in the exhibition 'The Badge of Rank', London, April 19-May 13, 1990, illustrated by Linda Wrigglesworth, Catalogue, pp. 26 and 27
Other third rank badges of this type with the peacock standing freely, rather than its body forming a medallion, are in the Letcher Collection, illustrated by Cammann, University Museum Bulletin, 'Chinese Mandarin Squares', Vol. 17, No. 3, University of Pennsylvania, 1953, fig. 8, no. 9; one from a private collection, illustrated on the front cover, Arts of Asia, May-June, 1991; another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery, New York, 1983, fig. 6-13; and another illustrated by Valery M. Garrett, Chinese Clothing, Hong Kong, 1994, pl. 31
Other third rank badges of this type with the peacock standing freely, rather than its body forming a medallion, are in the Letcher Collection, illustrated by Cammann, University Museum Bulletin, 'Chinese Mandarin Squares', Vol. 17, No. 3, University of Pennsylvania, 1953, fig. 8, no. 9; one from a private collection, illustrated on the front cover, Arts of Asia, May-June, 1991; another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery, New York, 1983, fig. 6-13; and another illustrated by Valery M. Garrett, Chinese Clothing, Hong Kong, 1994, pl. 31