PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A pair of civil rank badges embroidered in coloured silks in peking knot stitch with the seventh rank mandarin duck (?) against a couched gilt thread ground, worked with cloud scrolls, reglious symbols and bats, over a sea-wave border, the border with fret patterns--11in square, mid 19th century
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A pair of civil rank badges embroidered in coloured silks in peking knot stitch with the seventh rank mandarin duck (?) against a couched gilt thread ground, worked with cloud scrolls, reglious symbols and bats, over a sea-wave border, the border with fret patterns--11in square, mid 19th century
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