拍品專文
A similar kesi rank badge displaying a silver pheasant, for a fifth rank civil official, is illustrated by Zhou Xun and Gao Chunming, 5000 Years of Chinese Costume, San Francisco, 1987, p. 187, fig. 322
細節
A GOLD-GROUND KESI MANDARIN SQUARE
18TH CENTURY
Displaying a mandarin duck, for a seventh rank civil official, woven and painted with the duck at the center perched on a craggy rock in a grassy clearing amidst cloud-enveloped pine and a rocky peak with a small pagoda, within key-scroll pattern borders picked out in blue
10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) across
18TH CENTURY
Displaying a mandarin duck, for a seventh rank civil official, woven and painted with the duck at the center perched on a craggy rock in a grassy clearing amidst cloud-enveloped pine and a rocky peak with a small pagoda, within key-scroll pattern borders picked out in blue
10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) across