Lot Essay
For another rank badge see Young Yang Chung, The Art of Oriental Embroidery (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983), pl. C-2.
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CHOSON PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
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Pair of Embroidered Silk Rank Badges (Hyungbae)
Choson Period (early 20th century)
For a military official of the first to third ranks, each square and embroidered with a white leopard with black spots and white clouds, waves and rocks in blue, red, purple and green silk and with couched gold thread, the ground figured blue silk, the edge of gold thread
8 x 7 1/8in. (20.2 x 18cm.) (2)
Choson Period (early 20th century)
For a military official of the first to third ranks, each square and embroidered with a white leopard with black spots and white clouds, waves and rocks in blue, red, purple and green silk and with couched gold thread, the ground figured blue silk, the edge of gold thread
8 x 7 1/8in. (20.2 x 18cm.) (2)